Casting time or dur to a float or int.

[jbum]

I'd like to be able to compute a parameter for Math.sin() that is based on the passage of time, but thus far, my attempts to put times or durations into floats or ints haven't worked.

Is there a way to do something like this?

[ge]

[cbit]

I'm trying to convert a duration to a float representig a number of milliseconds. Here's my first confused attempt to do this based on the comments above:

[Antimon]

Syntaxwise, I think you can look at a solitary <time unit> (what I'm calling time unit is what's after the double colon in expressions like 2::second or 365::day - second and day respectively) as shorthand for 1::<time unit>. I.e., this is a valid expression:

[cbit]

Thanks for the additional information stefan, that's clearer now.

[kijjaz]

Thanks everyone and thanks to Ge also.