Formatting a ToString for time

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Hi, I'm trying to make a digital clock in C# and I am having trouble with the formatting. I am trying to get a countdown from 5 min and display it in a mm:ss format. Here is what I have so far, but I can't figure out how to adjust the formatting in the ToString.

 currentTime = nextDay - Time.time;
 min = Mathf.Ceil(currentTime/60);
 sec = Mathf.Ceil (currentTime % 60);
 var timer = min + ":" + sec;
 
 GUI.Label (new Rect(712,495,50,30), timer.ToString());

Answer 1

Answer by zyzyx · Oct 02, 2012 at 04:56 PM

You can use the C# String.Format Method. This could look something like this (for mm:ss format):

     public static string SecondsToString(int sec)
     {
         int minutes = sec / 60;
         int seconds = sec % 60;
 
         return string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}", minutes, seconds);
     }

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Answer by Broheim · Oct 02, 2012 at 04:32 PM

 min = Mathf.Ceil(currentTime/60);
 min_s = min.ToString();
 
 while (min_s.Length < 2)
 {
  min_s = "0" + min_s;
 }

Didn't test it.

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