How to find time difference between Date-Times and set to Time field of Creator

STEP 1. FIND TIME GAP using `timeBetween`

startTime = zoho.currenttime.subHour(2).subMinutes(24).subSeconds(4);
endTime = zoho.currenttime;
timeGap = startTime.timeBetween(endTime);

STEP 2: Structure Time String for Time Field

There's an issue with the time_gap function. It only returns a value when there's a difference between the compared times. If there's no difference, the function returns nothing.

To address this, we can loop through a range of three values (0 to 2) and replace any empty responses with "00".

timeList = timeGap.toList(":");
finalTime = "";
loopArr = [0,1,2];
for each i in loopArr {
scaleTime = (if(timeList.size() > i,timeList.get(i), "00").toString().leftPad(2)).replaceAll(" ", "0");
finalTime = finalTime +":"+ scaleTime;
}
info finalTime.removeFirstOccurence(":");

You can use finalTime variable to assign in Time field.

Coding is fun :) Have a great day!

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