Work out the percentage of the day that has elapsed

Question

Slightly strange question, but hopefully someone can help.

In essence, if the time was 12pm the the elapsed percentage would be 50%, 6am would be 25% and 16pm would

Answer 1

The accepted answer bugs me for many reasons including the relationship to a real life calendar. Personally, I would probably do this:

result:

72.22% of the day has passed (62402 out of 86400 seconds)

You could then extend it even further by making a function and changing the range from "today" and "tomorrow" to something else.