Convert A_TickCount - Time Since Boot

A_TickCount is a variable in AutoHotkey that holds the amount of milliseconds since Windows boot time. This variable works great internally for lots of scripts and programs not only for getting time since boot, but also for getting times that things run (E.g.: threads,hotkey execution etc...), but not too great for human readability. For example if I want to see how long my computer has been running I could use a message box, tooltip, or traytip to display the time in milliseconds:

MsgBox,64,Time Since Boot, %A_TickCount%

might output something like 13399343 millliseconds. You would then divide that number by 1000 to get seconds, then another 60 to get minutes and so on and so forth to get:

13399343/1000 = 13399 seconds
13399/60      = 223   minutes
223/60        = 3.71  hours
etc...

While this might not be hard to do it is much quicker to do the conversions in a function or class and so I have created a class called 'Convert'. This class will eventually encompass all sorts of math conversions, but for now I just have a conversion for A_TickCount. This class allows you to convert both individual total time (total seconds, total minutes etc..) and also allows you to convert for modulated remainders for a displayed, human readable format, e.g. 0:3:45:30 or  0 Days:3 Hours:45 Minutes:30 Seconds. In the class I have a way to return a single line format to send to a file or a multi-line format for display.

Examples

TrayTip,Time Since Boot,% Convert.TickCount.toDisplay()
 

Output:

While

FileAppend,% Convert.TickCount.toFile(),% "C:\Users\" A_Username "\Desktop\boottime.log"
    

will send:

0:4:59:3
 

to a file called 'boottime.log' on your desktop.

The main difference between, for example, say Hours() and toHours() is that any prefixed to____() modulates the returned value to only return the remainder for displayed time. The ____() will return the total corresponding Hours, Minutes etc... E.g. for 28 hours:

Hours()   == 28 hours
toHours() == 4 hours (the remainder after 1 day)
 

The Class

Class Convert {
 Class TickCount {
  toDays(count:=False){
   Return Floor(Mod((((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60)/60)/24),24))
  }
  Days(count:=False){
   Return Floor(((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60)/60)/24)
  }
  toHours(count:=False){
   Return Floor(Mod(Mod(((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60)/60),60),24))
  }
  Hours(count:=False){
   Return Floor(((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60)/60))
  }
  toMinutes(count:=False){
   Return Floor(Mod((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60),60))
  }
  Minutes(count:=False){
   Return Floor((((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000)/60))
  }
  toSeconds(count:=False){
   Return Floor(Mod(((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000),60))
  }
  Seconds(count:=False){
   Return Floor(((count:=count?count:A_TickCount)/1000))
  }
  toDisplay(count:=False){
   count:=count?count:A_TickCount
   d:=Convert.TickCount.toDays(count)
   h:=Convert.TickCount.toHours(count)
   m:=Convert.TickCount.toMinutes(count)
   s:=Convert.TickCount.toSeconds(count)
   Return  "Days" A_Tab "Hours" A_Tab "Minutes" A_Tab "Seconds`n" 
     .  d A_Tab h A_Tab m A_Tab s "`nSince Windows Boot."
  }
  toFile(count:=False){
   count:=count?count:A_TickCount
   d:=Convert.TickCount.toDays(count)
   h:=Convert.TickCount.toHours(count)
   m:=Convert.TickCount.toMinutes(count)
   s:=Convert.TickCount.toSeconds(count)  
   Return d ":" h ":" m ":" s
  }
 }
}



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