Hi Oxa,
Thanks for the response. My needs are a little more complicated. Yes, I know that the datetime variables are given to us in double format, and can be translated through excel...
But, for my needs, I developed a trigger for a friend, and it employs a strategy which places a lay bet on the correct score, during half time.. After much discussion, I decided to use a simple condition which was selection's minutes since the off is between 55 and 60 minutes, which pretty much guarantees that its at half time...
The problem came when I tried to demonstrate the triggers use, and I brought up a match that had only just reached half time, at approx 47 minutes after kick off... At the 55th minute, or very soon after, I expected the trigger to fire, because minutes after the off would be at 55...
No luck with that, no bet placed, and so, my need was to be able to parse the event_start into a time, so that, no matter when I opened MFP, be that 20 minutes into the match or anytime before half time, my trigger will execute the lay before the start of the second half...
So, my need was to be able to look at checking the difference between event_start, and NOW, giving me the minutes value, so I could use a variable say called maoTime, and then use a condition to say where trigger expression maoTime is between 55 and 60....
But, of course I wasn't able to do this...
It would not have been needed if MFP knew how many minutes had passed since kick off, even though MFP was not open before kick off...
Mark.