# Display Timer Component Value in HH:MM:SS format

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**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-timer-component-value-in-hh-mm-ss-format/9000 "2014-09-04T16:07:46Z")\
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The original intent was to use an expression, not a script. 😉

That said, new date functions have been added since 2014.

> [@Expression tag to convert minutes to hh:mm:ss](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-tag-to-convert-minutes-to-hh-mm-ss/9154/10):
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> IMO, it can just as easily be done without script. start from a date (midnight) add minutes or seconds like you want (needs to be integers, if you want high precision, you can add milliseconds as integers) format as “HH:mm:ss” This doesn’t work if the hours value can reach more than 24 hours, but apart from that, it’s quite concise and easy to understand IMO. dateFormat( addSeconds( getDate(1970,1,1), toInt({Root Container.value} \* 60) ), "HH:mm:ss" )

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