Java Programming Tutorial - 37 - Display Regular time

How to display time for normal people

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[soldado1997]

*me at class 1* "this is gonna be awesome! :D"

*me at class 37* "my head hurts, i hate this shit, i need an aspirin, but i won't give up!" xD

[Dystisis]

I called the variable for this "toWeirdAmerican". AM, PM, impossibly cluttered way of counting time imo.

On Earth the 'normal' way to keep track of time is what americans call "military".

[TheBlackDeath3]

@sporreking

Yeah, doesn't it just bother you when people living in a particular country have a world perspective associated with that country? It's almost like their environment plays a role in their growing understanding of the world around them!

You know what I am tired of? Bigots like you who jump at any opportunity to bash on somebody for holding a different world perspective than your own. So thenewboston considers strange what you consider normal? Get the fuck over it.

[leonardodakuhne]

Ayo04Soul: facepalm

[FewCode]

@Ayo04Soul so you downloaded eclipse and extracted it to a place on your computer? then ran it from its .exe file? oh and you might wanna go download java again.

[Ayo04Soul]

I've got to lesson 37 and so far no problem with the programming. However, I wasn't able to successfully set up the Java environment or get Eclipse. working :-(.

So can you help with this.

I'm working with a Notebook (easy to carry around), running Microsoft windows XP home edition. I have previously downloaded Jre 1.5.0.

I tried the steps you mentioned but nothing ?

Anyway I will continue with the lessons (audio only) but would like to start practicing asap.

PS - I am an ex programmer

[TheViolinCalamity]

Haven't seen any challenges under the tuts for a while so here's one:

rebuild the clock so it asks the user what the time is then outputs that IN FORMAT :)

[COD5252]

what was that at 0:06 youtube time

[COD5252]

@soldado1997 are you 12 yrs of age ?

[tomcruise8419]

there are some problem bucky

if it take a modulus of hour than u have to change minute also



[AlderDragon]

I think when you define your setTime() method, you should plan ahead to include larger numbers. So if they enter 25 hours, have it wrap around to hour 1 rather than defaulting to 0. I did that like this:

hours = h%24;

minutes = m%60;

seconds = s%60;

You could also wrap the entire thing in an if-statement checking that the values are positive (or write a conditional for each, but one if might be more efficient), negative time doesn't really make sense.

[Frostbiyt]

the views went down by 20,000. they are noobs

[MyJavaRoadMap]

@soldado1997 Never back down, we're gonna be great after this playlist! Hang-on with Bucky!

[rsim22]

@princekhurana14 12 goes into 5 0 times hence the remainder is 5.

Maybe that is not clear. 5 divided by 12 = 0 with remainder 5.

[Imperceivable]

Analog (Not Literally) and Digital

[thecomputerkid11925]

"time@190d11" ?

[naenaeelizabeth]

I finally got it but missing am and pm dk where I went wrong that I cant get that

[devilazpl]

'{ ' shouldnt be just after function name, it makes the code look worse

just like in c++,

function (method) -> next line, bracket

[princekhurana14]

Some one please tell me how did we get 5 % 12 as an answer =5 ???

[NICKcoolize]

i only get 00:00:00

12:00:00

00:00:00

12:00:00

[minerwouter]

@rob2701full you did the printing wrong

You must for printing am or pm &s not $s

[rob2701ful]

when i run this

return String.format("%d:%02d:%02d $s", ((hour==0||hour==12)?12:hour%1­2), minute, second, (hour < 12? "AM" : "PM"));

all i get is 00:00:00

or

12:00:00 $s can help?

[Mtc529]

My dear Bucky, you may be a fantastic teacher, but your idea of what regular time is is quite wrong.

[t4techy]

Lol Bucky forgets a parenthesis, I forget a parenthesis :p

[maikkel81]

@karolyipeti Same thing here (Switzerland). I just called the methods "toStandard" and "toAmerican". I just hope the next program won't be about feet and miles...

[KristopherSw]

@GeekyMe97

you are finding the remainder of those variables and then printing them out