nested ifs

[dp13]

Hi all and thanks for any help.

I'm Finishing up my finals and my brain is fried. Why oh why is this nested if not setting the value (hour += 12 ) properly?

  cout << "hours:";
    cin >> hour;

	if (hour > 12)
	  {
		 hour += 12;
		 if (hour > 17)
		 {
	           cout << "Office hours do not end later than 5:00pm \n";
		   cout << "Please enter your starting time: \n";
		   cout << '\n';
		 }
	}

[Garion]

what are you trying to accomplish? I'm confused by your code also.

if you are just trying to print out the message if somebody enters a value greater than 17 then i don't think you would need to nest the second if statement.

[dp13]

I'm trying to code,

"if hour is greater than 12, then add 12 to hour, then if hour is over 17, validate loop"

I know, like I said my brain is sputtering lol

[Garion]

That makes sense in english but not for a computer.

The person should have already input the hour with +12 in it by the time it reaches your if statement.

You don't need to add 12 unless you are going to add a feature that would let you check if it was AM or PM. Then you wouldn't ask the person to add 12 to begin with.

[dp13]

Thanks, I changed the code already. Had a moment of clarity.