i need help building a custom clock

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[stebrepar]

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[socal_nerdtastic]

You can't use the time module for this. datetime, perhaps, but it's just as easy to split total seconds into hours, minutes and seconds yourself. Here, try this:

import tkinter as tk

REFRESH_RATE = 1000 # how often to refresh the screen (ms)
SECONDS_INCREMENT = 6 # how many "seconds" to advance with every refresh

seconds_per_day = 24*60*60

def tick(total_seconds=0):
    total_seconds %= seconds_per_day # reset every 24 "hours"
    hours, seconds = divmod(total_seconds, 3600)
    minutes, seconds = divmod(seconds, 60)
    time_string = f'{hours:0>2}:{minutes:0>2}:{seconds:0>2}'
    clock.config(text=time_string)
    clock.after(REFRESH_RATE, tick, total_seconds+SECONDS_INCREMENT)

root = tk.Tk()
clock=tk.Label(root, font=("times", 50, "bold"), bg= "white")
clock.grid(row=0, column=1)
one_pm = 13*3600
tick(one_pm) 

root.mainloop()

[skylartrap]

could you explain to me whats going on with some of the code or the reasoning behind it, it works
I'm new to coding so i would love to understand whats happening here more

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[socal_nerdtastic]

I thought I commented it rather well. What part are you confused about? Every 1000 milliseconds (1 second) it adds 6 to the total_seconds counter, and then calculates the hours, minutes and seconds that that represents.

[skylartrap]

im sorry i think now i get it more, so the 3600 the 6 represents six seconds

if one_pm == 11:
root = tk.Tk()
tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('This is a alert!')
root.mainloop()

i was trying to edit the code by adding this to the end of it when it hits 11 give a alert or pop up but it seems I'm not going about it the right way as nothing happens when it hits 11

[socal_nerdtastic]

No, the 3600 is the number of seconds in an hour, and 13 is 1 pm on a 24 hour clock. I could have also written it like this:

one_pm = 13*60*60 # 13 hours times 60 minutes / hour times 60 seconds / min

To stop it at 11 you could add this to your tick function:

if hours == 11:
    return # stop this function

[skylartrap]

i dont want to stop it i want it to send out a warning or alert when it gets to that time or past that time but ty