Re: How to get time difference with Elisp?

[Emanuel Berg]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> I need to determine total office hours of
> a day without the time spent in lunch break.
> The source data is officebegin, officeend,
> lunchbreakbegin, lunchbreakend - all in
> string format "HH:MM" like "14:58".

I have two functions to that end only I think
bigger than in hours and minutes :)

But I think it can be modified to do what you
want by modifying the input arguments, the
output format, and possibly some other things
as well.

Keet it up :)

(defun time-between-times (year1 month1 day1
                           year2 month2 day2)
  (let*((seconds-then  (float-time (encode-time 0 0 0 day1 month1 year1)))
        (seconds-now   (float-time (encode-time 0 0 0 day2 month2 year2)))
        (seconds-diff  (- seconds-now seconds-then)) )
    (format-seconds "%Y, %D" seconds-diff)))

(defun get-time-since (year month day)
  (interactive "nyear: \nnmonth: \nnday: ")
  (message "%s" (format-seconds
                 "%Y, %D"
                 (float-time
                  (time-since (encode-time 0 0 0 day month year)) ))))

Source: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/time-my.el

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