# Converting "seconds" to "minutes:seconds"

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-seconds-to-minutes-seconds/49410>\
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**Created:** [April 22, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-seconds-to-minutes-seconds/49410 "2004-04-22T14:10:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cswisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@cswisher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cswisher)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-seconds-to-minutes-seconds/49410/1 "2004-04-22T14:10:43Z")

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I’m trying to add a running timer to my flash movie. I’ve got it now so that it counts seconds (by comparing \_currentframe with the frame rate), but I’d like to be able to express that in minutes:seconds.

Anybody have a nice script that can do that?