how to display time as hour:min format ?????

[king85]

hi i am new to objective C . i am writing a program where the data's are given , in the output it should display name , id no and enter and exit time and total time spend in office.
i want the time format to show in hour:min format for ex 10:00 idk how to put it , any help would be great

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface employee : NSObject 
{
    NSString *name;
    int idno;
    int entertime;
    int exittime;
}

-(void) print;
-(void) setName : (NSString*) nn;
-(void) setId : (int) iden;
-(void) setentertime : (int) enter;
-(void) setexittime : (int) exit;

-(void) totaltime;

@end

@implementation employee

-(void) print
{
    NSLog(@"The name = %@",name);
    NSLog(@"The id number of the employee = %i",idno);
    NSLog(@"The entertime of the employee = %i",entertime);
    NSLog(@"The exittime of the employee  = %i",exittime);
}

-(void) setName : (NSString*) nn;
{
    name=nn;
}

-(void) setId : (int) iden;
{
    idno=iden;
}

-(void) setentertime : (int) enter;
{
    entertime = enter;
}

-(void) setexittime : (int) exit;
{
    exittime=exit;
}

-(void) totaltime
{
    int totaltime;
    totaltime=exittime-entertime;
    
    NSLog(@"Employee worked for %2i hours",totaltime);
    
}

@end


int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{

    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
   
    employee *myemployee;
    
    myemployee=[[employee alloc]init];
    

    [myemployee setName:@"rahul"];
    [myemployee setId:23];
    [myemployee setexittime:17];
    [myemployee setentertime:10];
    
    [myemployee print];
    [myemployee totaltime];
     
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

[krag]

Take a look at NSDateFormatter class

NSDateFormatter Class Reference

[king85]

i dont want to use NSDateFormatter Class Reference

can i use it using simple program like we do it in c/c++

like using mod or something

[Domele]

What..... Why don't you want to use NSDateFormatter? It'll take maybe 3 lines of code.

[king85]

Originally Posted by Domele

What..... Why don't you want to use NSDateFormatter? It'll take maybe 3 lines of code.

cause i want write in basic program cause i dont know how to do it NSdateformatter ..
i just want to try it out how we use it in C then later on when i get more familiar with objective C i'll use NSdateformatter.

idk how to do it in C

[new2objectivec]

Instead of getting stuck with things like this, how about write a separate method which returns a string to display the time in the required format.

Then you can separate your main code from the "what-ever-language/method" used to display the time correctly.

For now, put in the NSDateFormatter or whatever method in there first, just to make your whole application working. I found this example on the net: http://ykyuen.wordpress.com/2010/06/...dateformatter/

Later, you can "improve" that method and re-write it with whatever better language you like. (which might never happen :-P ...)