From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   Zaidy036 wrote:   
   > On 12/5/2020 10:11 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   >> Zaidy036 wrote:   
   >>> On 12/5/2020 8:50 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   >>>> The last line is the thing I want to point out. It's a single   
   >>>> equation that converts the hour from 24-hour format to 12-hour   
   >>>> format. I'm sure this would run faster than an IF statement and   
   >>>> more so if the IF was followed by a GOTO. In the past I have used   
   >>>> IF because I hadn't thought of doing it all in arithmetic. But I   
   >>>> don't see a way to avoid the IF that chooses am and pm.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> set tm=%time%   
   >>>> set hr=%tm:~0,2%   
   >>>> if %hr% LSS 12 (set AMPM=am) else (set AMPM=pm)   
   >>>> set /a hr=hr%%12 + !hr*12 + !(hr-12)*12   
   >>>>   
   >>> use Net Time https://ss64.com/nt/net-time.html   
   >>>   
   >>> FOR /F "tokens=7 delims= " %%n IN ('NET TIME \\PCname') DO SET   
   >>> _TX=%%n   
   >>   
   >> That will take even longer to execute.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > if a millisecond or two is that important have fun   
      
   It's more than a millisecond to run an external program with the FOR   
   command. It depends on a service running, and external commands are much   
   more likely to have changes in syntax and also in output format between   
   different OS versions.   
      
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