From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Correction, it doesn't depend on the time service, but the other points   
   are valid.   
      
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