"%02d" does not work for milliseconds

[serimert]

Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

var time_left:float = time_trial_timer.time_left
	
var minute = floor(time_left / 60)
var second = int(time_left) % 60
var milliseconds = fmod(time_left, 1) * 1000
var time_arr:Array = [minute, second, milliseconds]
	
time_countdown_lbl.text = " " + ("%02d:%02d.%02d" % time_arr) + " "

Above code giving the output below
01:00.230 which is triple digits. minutes and seconds are working fine.

[paintsimmon]

%02d specifies a minimum length to pad with 0s to, I think you mean to use . to round, like %.2f.

[gertkeno]

%02d gives at least 2 digits of padding with 0, i.e. 01 instead of 1, but your milliseconds number is over 3 digits, 230. You could use %03d instead to always pad up to three digits i.e. 001, or you could calculate centi-seconds instead, I suppose multiplying by 100 instead of 1,000 would do the trick.

[paintsimmon]

Wait the poster did not specify why the formatting wasn’t working. I mean, 230 for milliseconds seems like the correct value since there are 1000 milliseconds in a second.

[serimert]

Wanted two digits with no decimals. I mean i just want two digit milliseconds, 02d and .2f not working tried it.
00:23:44 something like that

[paintsimmon]

Two digit milliseconds don’t make sense, since there’s 1,000 milliseconds in a second. When you see something in the format XX:XX:XX it’s actually hours, minutes, and seconds.

[serimert]

found the solution in unity forums,
fmod(time_left, 1) * 100
multiplying with 100 instead of 1000 worked.

Sorry, have to disagree about “not making sense” there are many questions in web for this so it is definetely requested feature

[paintsimmon]

You are right, but those are "centi"seconds, not milliseconds, since you rounded to two decimal places