What programming language is used in Automate blocks?

[Alex]

I am trying to figure out how to convert a double to int and having no luck at all. I searched in the documents but there is no info on that. Can somebody explain what programming language is used in Automate and how to convert 5.000001  to 5 ?

[Shari Shark]

Why don't you just use the round function? 

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 12:58 Alex <istal...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to figure out how to convert a double to int and having no luck at all. I searched in the documents but there is no info on that. Can somebody explain what programming language is used in Automate and how to convert 5.000001  to 5 ?

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[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Automate use its own programming language, similar to JavaScript but without the OOP. Anyhow, use the round function.

[Alex]

Thank you

[Alex]

I ended up with a situation where I need a "floor" rather than "round".  Or please let me know how to replace parseInt function without floor.

Basically calculate a call duration catching start date and end date with "Now". Here is what I would do in poor javascript

// Calculate difference in milliseconds

let differenceInMs = endTime - startTime;

// Convert difference to minutes and seconds

let differenceInMinutes = differenceInMs / 1000 / 60;

let minutes = parseInt(differenceInMinutes);

let seconds = Math.round((differenceInMinutes - minutes) * 60);

[Alex]

Or this but again I need ParseInt or Floor:

// calculate difference in milliseconds

let differenceInMs = endTime - startTime;

// convert difference to minutes and seconds

let differenceInSeconds = Math.floor(differenceInMs / 1000); 

let minutes = Math.floor(differenceInSeconds / 60);  

let seconds = differenceInSeconds % 60;

[Shari Shark]

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Is it up convert duration into hh, mm and ss? 

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[Alex]

I want to calculate the duration of a phone call.  I have start date and end date, now I need to calculate minutes and seconds

[Shari Shark]

There's a few functions readily available.

durationFormat

dateFormat

trunc

floor

You should read the documentation.

[Alex]

durationFormat  was exactly what I needed. You the man!