Simple code to get number of minutes / hours in a trade

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I'm trying to come up with a real simple piece of code that just shows me the number of minutes / hours that I'm in an open position.

Basically what I know I should do is use

TimeCurrent()-OrderOpenTime()

 

But this gives me a Time formatted value from year 1970. I'd rather just have a number of hours / minutes I can work with.

Anyone know if there is a function for this? 

  
  int seconds_in_trade=(int)(TimeCurrent()-OrderOpenTime())

should give you the duration in seconds. 

Then code to convert the seconds into hours and minutes 

 

If you just need the value as a string for a Print, Comment or label

  datetime time_in_trade=TimeCurrent()-OrderOpenTime();
  Print(TimeToStr(time_in_trade,TIME_MINUTES));

 should do it

but I'm not sure what would happen if a trade is open more than 24 hours, so probably only good for short term trades 

 
Thanks GumRai.. The first explicit conversion is what I needed.. I didnt know I could do an (<datatype>) conversion. I'm new to MQL4.. Thanks for you help.
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