How to convert hours,minutes,seconds to seconds

[preethi Ayyappan]

Hi

I need to convert a time format which is in hh:mm:ss to seconds. please assist me to do this.

Thanks

[pete stein]

Hello!

Can you show us what you've tried so far?

best of luck!

[preethi Ayyappan]

Hi,

thanks.I have tried this and got the output

  
String h="01:00:00";
String[] h1=h.split(":");

int hour=Integer.parseInt(h1[0]);
int minute=Integer.parseInt(h1[1]);
int second=Integer.parseInt(h1[2]);

		int temp;
		temp = second + (60 * minute) + (3600 * hour);

		System.out.println("secondsss"+temp);
  

But, What i need is ,I have to get the difference between two values of time like"01:00:00" and "01:20:00". Is it possible to directly subtract these values or i have to convert it into seconds and then only i can able to get the difference?

[Campbell Ritchie]

preethi Ayyappan wrote: . . . Is it possible to directly subtract these values . . . ?

You tell us. Write down on a sheet of paper how you would intend to subtract two times. Remember you can only subtract numbers; you cannot "subtract" strings.
Can you create a Time class and subtract hours minutes seconds, or can you only subtract seconds. When you work out how to do it on paper, you will see how to do it in code.

By the way: the names of your variables, h, h1 add temp are not at all informative. Imagine coming back to that code in 6 months are having to work out what "h" means.