Hi,
Help me in converting timeticks to hours.

Thanks,
Prakash.

Q: Could you be a bit more specific, please?

Q: What *weren't* you able to find when you did a Google search?

I will get output of script in timeticks. I want to convert it to hours and present it.
How can we do so?

Thanks.

Could you explain that with an example? Still not clear what you exactly need.

does the time command helps you?

Let me say in detail.
My script will calculate the system uptime in time ticks.
But,I want to display it as number of hours. So I want to change the output from time ticks to hours. How can i modify the output?

Thanks.

can you please be still more detail.

tell me which command you are using for getting the clock ticks inside the script.

Yes, an example of the input and the required output would be useful. If for "timeticks" you mean the number of seconds after some epoch, you can use the date command specifying the input with the -d option and formatting the output at your pleasure:
the number of seconds since epoch must be preceded by @ otherwise the date command is not able to interpret the input correctly. The problem arises if your timeticks refer to an epoch different than the unix epoch (01-01-1970 01:00) so that you have to do some calculation to correct the discrepancy.

Edit: sorry, posted before seeing the reply above.

date +%s will give the output in time ticks.

Are you talking of tick being 64th part of a second or so? If not then give real time example with what tick is and how your output will look like.

then can you use the command date +%R ?

you can convert the time ticks to seconds and then divide by 60 to get hours.
So the trick is to determine how many time ticks there are in a second and divide the time ticks by that value and then divide by 60 and you have it.

usually, ticks means C.P.U. clock ticks. Me too taught in the beginning like this only. But the O.P. is using date +%s which will give the seconds. He is calling the seconds as ticks which is not the general intention.