multiple ways of doing something isn't inherently bad.

For example, if you want to set a variable to the number of seconds in seven hours, you could just set the variable to 25200, or you could set it to 60 * 60 * 7. The expanded version might be clearer in the code context, but in the end they do exactly the same thing.

Your math equation turned the asterisks into italics.

hold on, why would you have 7 hours?

dont you mean a week? 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 ?

or at lest 8 hours?

7 hours is just odd