ot: converting minutes in hour-decimals

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 17.06.20 um 19:09 schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> 
>> off topic: How could I convert minutes in hour-decimals in a column 
>> such as
>>
>> 00:01
>> 00:04
>> 00:07
>> 00:11
>> 00:12
>> 00:13
>> 00:13
>> 00:18
>> 00:19
>> 00:21
>> 00:23
>> 00:32
>> 00:32
>> .... and more
>>
>> so that e.g. 00:30 becomes 00.50 h
>> either by a unix terminal command or by gnuplot or pyxplot?
> 
> Wolfgang,
> 
> Divide the minutes by 60. For example, 30. / 60. = 0.5 and 32. / 60. = 0.53
> Then add them to the hours. It's similar to changing 
> degrees-minutes-seconds
> to decimal degrees.
> 
yes, thats clear, but how to do that one >>>
> You can use python for this on the command line.
The aim is, to produce a second column with the hours-minutes in 
decimals, something like $1/60.

Wolfgang
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Rich