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Colon notation allows for more complex time expressions. You may use colon notation in the following manner to express time values.
Colon notation
<hours expression>:<minutes expression>:<seconds expression>
Colon notated time expressions evaluate from right to left as illustrated in the following examples:
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Example |
Meaning |
|---|---|
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:05 |
5 seconds |
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5:00: or 5:: |
5 hours |
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5:00 or 5: |
5 minutes |
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2:40: |
2 hours and 40 minutes |
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15:02:05 |
15 hours, 2 minutes and 5 seconds |
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3:25 |
3 minutes and 25 seconds |
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Attr1::Var2 |
Attr1 hours and Var2 seconds |