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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example A-5-2 on page II-688 in "calc --- Arithmetic calculations".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{calc}
\newcounter{hours}\newcounter{minutes}
\newcommand\printtime{\setcounter{hours}{\time/60}%
         \setcounter{minutes}{\time-\value{hours}*60}%
         \thehours h \theminutes min}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
The time is \printtime.
\end{document}
