Webcore Expression help

[robinogi (Robin)]

I’m trying to write an expression (all very new to me) that will tell me how many seconds between sunrise and sunset. I’ve managed to use the expression $sunset-$sunrise to return a value, but it has too many characters (3 extra “0” at the end). I see that I can use the “left” function to leave only the first 5 numbers, but I can’t seem to “nest” the commands together. If I use left($sunset-$sunrise, 5) it gives me “$suns” as a response.

What expression will calculate the number of seconds between sunrise and sunset? Thanks!

[farlicimo]

I’d post (or maybe someone can move) this to the Core forum or better yet take it over the the new webCore (independent of ST) forum at https://community.webcore.co/

Unfortunately I’m not much help with your specific question though.

[MEarly]

@robinogi

I’m trying to write an expression (all very new to me) that will tell me how many seconds between sunrise and sunset. I’ve managed to use the expression $sunset-$sunrise to return a value, but it has too many characters (3 extra “0” at the end). I see that I can use the “left” function to leave only the first 5 numbers, but I can’t seem to “nest” the commands together. If I use left($sunset-$sunrise, 5) it gives me “$suns” as a response.

What expression will calculate the number of seconds between sunrise and sunset? Thanks!

This might be a dumb question, but have you tried simply ($sunset - $sunrise) / 1000? (This is, of course, assuming that ST Groovy time is being converted to millis.)