"flupke" wrote: > Is there an easy to convert following hour notation hh:mm > to decimals? > For instance 2 hours and 30 minutes as 2:30 to 2,50 > I don't really know where to search for this kind of conversion. you mean like >>> timestamp = "2:30" >>> hour, minute = timestamp.split(":") >>> print int(hour) + int(minute) / 60.0 2.5 ? </F>