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Project 2 - Time Calculator: Objective

The document describes a project to create a time calculator program with functions for setting the current time, calculating time deltas into the future and past, and displaying times in either 12-hour or 24-hour format. It specifies functions to calculate future and past times from a base time and delta values, get user input for time setting and selection of 12/24-hour modes, roll over times that exceed 24 hours or 60 minutes, and print times in the selected format. It provides sample output and tips on testing edge cases and designing the program using functions. The deliverables are a project report discussing the program design and benefits of using functions, and the C++ source code file.

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Project 2 - Time Calculator: Objective

The document describes a project to create a time calculator program with functions for setting the current time, calculating time deltas into the future and past, and displaying times in either 12-hour or 24-hour format. It specifies functions to calculate future and past times from a base time and delta values, get user input for time setting and selection of 12/24-hour modes, roll over times that exceed 24 hours or 60 minutes, and print times in the selected format. It provides sample output and tips on testing edge cases and designing the program using functions. The deliverables are a project report discussing the program design and benefits of using functions, and the C++ source code file.

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Project 2 Time Calculator

Objective

To gain experience and practice using pass-by-value and pass-by-reference functions.

Problem

You have been hired by a local mechanical watch company. They are interested in expanding to
digital watches to grow their business. The would like you to write a program which can set the
current time, calculate time deltas, and display times.

Specifications

For your program, you will need to implement the following functions:

void calcDeltaFutr(int h, int m, int deltaH, int deltaM,


int& hNew, int& mNew);
h and m are the current times. deltaH and deltaM are the amount of time into the
future you are trying to calculate. hNew and mNew will store the future time once all
the necessary calculations are done.
void calcDeltaPast(int h, int m, int deltaH, int deltaM,
int& hNew, int& mNew);
h and m are the current times. deltaH and deltaM are the amount of time into the
past you are trying to calculate. hNew and mNew will store the past time once all the
necessary calculations are done.
void getTime(int &h, int &m, bool mode);
h and m store the time that the user enters. mode is used to decide if you allow the
user to enter the time in 12h mode or 24h mode.
void rollTimeForward(int& h, int& m);
h and m are the hours and minutes for a time. This function will take values of h and m
that are larger than 24 and 60, respectively, and roll them around until they are on the
intervals [0,23] and [0,59], respectively. Note than you can use the % operator to take
the remainder when dividing by a number. For instance, if m = 70, then this should be
converted to m = 10 and h = h + 1. To achieve this, you could do h = h + m %
60 and then m = m % 60. This function should be called right at the end of the
calcDeltaFutr function.
void rollTimeBack(int& h, int& m);
Similar to rollTimeForward, this function deals with values of h and m that are
negative and rolls them around so that they are on the intervals [0,23] and [0,59],
respectively. This function should be called right at the end of the calcDeltaPast
function. Make sure you work though all the edge cases that this function might
encounter. This function can get messy if not all situations are taken into account.
void printTime(int h, int m, bool mode);
h and m are the hours and minutes component of the time to be printed. mode
specifies if the time should be printed in 12-hour or 24-hour format.

In this project, the current time should be stored in 24-hour format. Only when the user
actually interacts with the program will the output and input be sometimes in 12-hour
format.

Implement a main menu that will allow the user to (1) enter the current time, (2) add a
forward delta to the current time, (3) add a backwards delta to the current time, (4)
display the current time, (5) toggle the interface mode between 24-hour and 12-hour
(should impact both getTime and printTime).

The program should identify invalid input for the main menu. When entering the current
time, only allow hours between 0 and 23 and minutes between 0 and 59. Accept only a
and p when entering the time in 12-hour mode.

When entering time deltas, only allow positive values or 0 (this is true for both forward and
backwards time deltas).

Sample Output: Normal Operation (user input in italics)


1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 1
Enter the time with whitespace separating the hours and minutes: 5 50

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 4
The current time is 05:50

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 2
Enter an increment of hours and minutes (separated by a space): 0 120
The new time would be 07:50

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 2
Enter an increment of hours and minutes (separated by a space): 2 20
The new time would be 08:10

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 5
12-hour mode turned on

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 1
Enter the time with whitespace separating the hours, minutes, and either 'a' for am or
'p' for pm: 0 15 a

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 4
The current time is 12:15 am

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 3
Enter a decrement of hours and minutes (separated by a space): 1 15
The new time would be 11:00 pm

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 3
Enter a decrement of hours and minutes (separated by a space): 0 90
The new time would be 10:45 pm

1 - Enter a time
2 - Add delta to time
3 - Subtract delta from time
4 - Display current time
5 - Toggle 24-hour mode
6 - Exit
> 6
Exiting...

Tips

Make sure to write your other functions before you write your int main.
When implementing each function, make sure to test all edge cases. This is especially important
for the rollForward and rollback functions as they have perhaps the most complicated
functionality of any of the functions used in this project.

Deliverables

(15 points) A project report discussing what your program does, how it does it, and why you
designed it the way you did. Reflect on how the project would be different if you had not used
loops and functions methods. Shoot for something in the 1-2 page range. PDF format.
(85 points) Your c++ source code (the .cpp file). Make sure to name it
project2_yourlastname.cpp.

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