# Formatting/Converting Siemens TIME type to display a timer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/formatting-converting-siemens-time-type-to-display-a-timer/27788>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/formatting-converting-siemens-time-type-to-display-a-timer/27788 "2019-08-26T23:00:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![chi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@chi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chi)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/formatting-converting-siemens-time-type-to-display-a-timer/27788/3 "2019-08-27T20:11:28Z")

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The Siemens `TIME` is a simple unsigned DINT with a milliseconds value.  
There are some solutions at the end of [this topic](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/converting-millisecond-to-time-read-out-hh-mm-ss/11819) to display milliseconds as `hh:mm:ss`

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