Formate for time in methods

[Hannes821]

Hello.

since the regular writing formate of time does not work in methods
(example, for 8 hours 8:00:00:0000) because the ":" is not accepted;
I do not use the colon ( : ), so my time looks like 80000, (or 0800 
or 08 00 00 0000)and its a bit confusing how many "zeros"
I actually need, and how SimPlant is reading it, digit-wise.

Thanks for help ;-)

[AlexD_SimPlan]

I'm not sure I understand what exactly you're trying to do. Defining a time-variable in a method for 8hr could be done like this, e.g.:

So what do you mean with ":" is not accepted?

[Hannes821]

He is giving me a syntax error warning for line 11 if I do it that way.
That is why I was asking. It will be red and not usable if I use a colon ( : ).

[AlexD_SimPlan]

What PlantSimulation version do you use?

[Hannes821]

Version 11 (64bit).

[AlexD_SimPlan]

why? So the third option with directly using the ":" was introduced in Plant Simulation 14 (or maybe 13.2 or something, I don't use those). In Plant 11 you can only use the first 2 options (using str_to_time or entering the time in seconds); does that still solve your problem?

[Hannes821]

since I defined it as time above already, he is complaining if I convert again.
I put in the 8 00 0000 (without spaces) for eight hours and at least he formally does not complain.
Or do I have to type 8 x 3600 to get the numerically correct value?

[simulator]

8 * 3600  equals 8 h

[AlexD_SimPlan · Accepted solution]

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@Hannes821  schrieb:

since I defined it as time above already, he is complaining if I convert again.

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That should not happen, if you do it like I showed in my first post; if your variable (on the left) is really of type "time" and then you assign str_to_time("8:00:00") to it, then this must be valid code.

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@Hannes821  schrieb:

I put in the 8 00 0000 (without spaces) for eight hours and at least he formally does not complain.
Or do I have to type 8 x 3600 to get the numerically correct value?

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As shown in my first post, you must use 8x3600! What you put in there equals ~92 days (because it simply means 8000000 seconds).

[Hannes821]

To the first part, maybe this picture illustrates why it is not a valid input;
not workingnot workingworking, thank you

to the second part, thank you, this solved the problem.
Now I finally know how to (in which formate/ shape to) insert time. Thank you.