[java] How to convert milliseconds to "hh:mm:ss" format?

Test results for the 4 implementations

Having to do a lot of formatting for huge data, needed the best performance, so here are the (surprising) results:

for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { FUNCTION_CALL }

Durations:

  • combinationFormatter: 196 millis
  • formatDuration: 272 millis
  • apacheFormat: 754 millis
  • formatTimeUnit: 2216 millis

    public static String apacheFormat(long millis) throws ParseException {
        return DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(millis, "HH:mm:ss");
    }
    
    public static String formatTimeUnit(long millis) throws ParseException {
    String formatted = String.format(
            "%02d:%02d:%02d",
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millis),
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis)
                    - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millis)),
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millis)
                    - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis)));
        return formatted;
    }
    
    public static String formatDuration(final long millis) {
        long seconds = (millis / 1000) % 60;
        long minutes = (millis / (1000 * 60)) % 60;
        long hours = millis / (1000 * 60 * 60);
    
        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
        b.append(hours == 0 ? "00" : hours < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + hours) : 
        String.valueOf(hours));
        b.append(":");
        b.append(minutes == 0 ? "00" : minutes < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + minutes) :     
        String.valueOf(minutes));
        b.append(":");
        b.append(seconds == 0 ? "00" : seconds < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + seconds) : 
        String.valueOf(seconds));
        return b.toString();
    }
    
    public static String combinationFormatter(final long millis) {
        long seconds = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millis)
                - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis));
        long minutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis)
                - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millis));
        long hours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millis);
    
        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
        b.append(hours == 0 ? "00" : hours < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + hours) : 
        String.valueOf(hours));
        b.append(":");
        b.append(minutes == 0 ? "00" : minutes < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + minutes) : 
        String.valueOf(minutes));
            b.append(":");
        b.append(seconds == 0 ? "00" : seconds < 10 ? String.valueOf("0" + seconds) : 
        String.valueOf(seconds));
        return b.toString(); 
     }