June 2, 20205 yr A simple problem: I want to add a number to a time and get the end time to express AM or PM. For example: Start time = 10:00AM Duration = 3 hours End time = should be 1:00PM I can't figure out how to make this work.
June 2, 20205 yr Hi John Filemaker stores times as seconds from the programmers point of view, so you can just add a number of seconds and FM will do the arithmetic correctly. 3 hours = 10,800 seconds So 10:00AM + 10800 = 1:00PM newTimeField = oldTimeField + 10800
June 2, 20205 yr Author I finally figured it out. the end time field must be formatted as Short System Time in Inspector. I never knew what that was for before.
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