# Expression tag to convert minutes to hh:mm:ss

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 7, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-tag-to-convert-minutes-to-hh-mm-ss/9154 "2014-10-07T20:50:34Z")\
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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.

```auto
dateFormat(
	addSeconds(
		getDate(1970,1,1),
		toInt({Root Container.value} * 60)
	),
	"HH:mm:ss"
)

```

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