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How to convert milliseconds into human readable form?

I need to convert an arbitrary amount of milliseconds into Days, Hours, Minutes Second.

For example: 10 Days, 5 hours, 13 minutes, 1 second.

Solution

  • Well, since nobody else has stepped up, I'll write the easy code to do this:

    x = ms / 1000
seconds = x % 60
x /= 60
minutes = x % 60
x /= 60
hours = x % 24
x /= 24
days = x

    I'm just glad you stopped at days and didn't ask for months. :)

    Note that in the above, it is assumed that / represents truncating integer division. If you use this code in a language where / represents floating point division, you will need to manually truncate the results of the division as needed.