How to convert milliseconds into human readable form

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I need to convert an arbitrary amount of milliseconds into Days  Hours  Minutes Second   For example  10 Days  5 hours  13 minutes  1 second

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Here s my solution using TimeUnit   UPDATE  I should point out that this is written in groovy  but Java is almost identical   def remainingStr          Days    int days   MILLISECONDS toDays remainingTime  as int remainingStr     days    1     1 Day          days  Days     remainingTime -  DAYS toMillis days      Hours    int hours   MILLISECONDS toHours remainingTime  as int remainingStr     hours    1     1 Hour          hours  Hours     remainingTime -  HOURS toMillis hours      Minutes    int minutes   MILLISECONDS toMinutes remainingTime  as int remainingStr     minutes    1     1 Minute          minutes  Minutes     remainingTime -  MINUTES toMillis minutes      Seconds    int seconds   MILLISECONDS toSeconds remainingTime  as int remainingStr     seconds    1     1 Second       seconds  Seconds

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Your choices are simple    Write the code to do the conversion  ie  divide by milliSecondsPerDay to get days and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerHour to get hours and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerMinute and divide by 1000 for seconds   milliSecondsPerMinute   60000  milliSecondsPerHour   60   milliSecondsPerMinute  milliSecondsPerDay   24   milliSecondsPerHour  Use an operating routine of some kind   UNIX and Windows both have structures that you can get from a Ticks or seconds type value

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In java  public static String formatMs long millis        long hours   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toHours millis       long mins   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toMinutes millis       long secs   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toSeconds millis       return String format   dh  d min   d sec               hours              mins - TimeUnit HOURS toMinutes hours               secs - TimeUnit MINUTES toSeconds mins             Gives something like this   12h 1 min  34 sec

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Here is more precise method in JAVA   I have implemented this simple logic   hope this will help you       public String getDuration String  currentTimemilliSecond                long  currentTimeMiles   1                   int x   0          int seconds   0          int minutes   0          int hours   0          int days   0          int month   0          int year   0           try                         currentTimeMiles   Long parseLong  currentTimemilliSecond                    x in seconds                    x    int    currentTimeMiles   1000                 seconds   x                if seconds  gt 59                                minutes   seconds 60                    if minutes  gt  59                                        hours   minutes 60                       if hours  gt  23                                                days   hours 24                            if days  gt  30                                                        month   days 30                               if month  gt  11                                                                year   month 12                                   Log d  Year   year                                   Log d  Month   month 12                                   Log d  Days   days   30                                   Log d  hours    hours   24                                   Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                                   Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                       return  Year   year     Month   month 12    Days    days 30    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                            else                                                               Log d  Month   month                                   Log d  Days   days   30                                   Log d  hours    hours   24                                   Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                                   Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                       return  Month   month    Days    days 30    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                                                   else                                                       Log d  Days   days                                Log d  hours    hours   24                               Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                               Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                   return  Days    days    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                                       else                                               Log d  hours    hours                           Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                           Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                            return  hours   hours   Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                          else                                       Log d  Minutes    minutes                       Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                        return  Minutes   minutes    Seconds   seconds 60                                              else                               Log d  Seconds    x                   return   Seconds   seconds                                  catch  Exception e                         Log e getClass   getName   toString    e toString                       return                private Class Log               public static void d String tag   int value                        System out println          Debug         tag         value

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A solution using awk    ms 10000001  awk -v ms  ms  BEGIN  x ms 1000                                        s x 60  x  60                                       m x 60  x  60                                       h x 60                                printf  quot  02d  02d  02d  03d n quot   h  m  s  ms 1000    02 46 40 001

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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

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You should use the datetime functions of whatever language you re using  but  just for fun here s the code   int milliseconds   someNumber   int seconds   milliseconds   1000   int minutes   seconds   60   seconds    60   int hours   minutes   60   minutes    60   int days   hours   24   hours    24

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I m not able to comment first answer to your question  but there s a small mistake  You should use parseInt or Math floor to convert floating point numbers to integer  i  var days  hours  minutes  seconds  x  x   ms   1000  seconds   Math floor x   60   x    60  minutes   Math floor x   60   x    60  hours   Math floor x   24   x    24  days   Math floor x     Personally  I use CoffeeScript in my projects and my code looks like that   getFormattedTime    ms - gt          x   ms   1000         seconds   Math floor x   60         x    60         minutes   Math floor x   60         x    60         hours   Math floor x   24         x    24         days   Math floor x         formattedTime      seconds s          if minutes then formattedTime      minutes m     formattedTime         if hours then formattedTime      hours h     formattedTime         formattedTime

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Your choices are simple    Write the code to do the conversion  ie  divide by milliSecondsPerDay to get days and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerHour to get hours and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerMinute and divide by 1000 for seconds   milliSecondsPerMinute   60000  milliSecondsPerHour   60   milliSecondsPerMinute  milliSecondsPerDay   24   milliSecondsPerHour  Use an operating routine of some kind   UNIX and Windows both have structures that you can get from a Ticks or seconds type value

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This is a solution  Later you can split by     and take the values of the array         Converts milliseconds to human readeable language separated by        Example  190980000 -- gt  2 05 3 -- gt  2days 5hours 3min     function dhm t       var cd   24   60   60   1000          ch   60   60   1000          d   Math floor t   cd           h    0    Math floor   t - d   cd    ch           m    0    Math round   t - d   cd - h   ch    60000       return  d  h substr -2   m substr -2   join          var delay   190980000                     var fullTime   dhm delay   console log fullTime

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Apache Commons Lang has a DurationFormatUtils that has very helpful methods like formatDurationWords

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This is a solution  Later you can split by     and take the values of the array         Converts milliseconds to human readeable language separated by        Example  190980000 -- gt  2 05 3 -- gt  2days 5hours 3min     function dhm t       var cd   24   60   60   1000          ch   60   60   1000          d   Math floor t   cd           h    0    Math floor   t - d   cd    ch           m    0    Math round   t - d   cd - h   ch    60000       return  d  h substr -2   m substr -2   join          var delay   190980000                     var fullTime   dhm delay   console log fullTime

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Long serverUptimeSeconds         System currentTimeMillis   - SINCE TIME IN MILLISECONDS    1000    String serverUptimeText    String format   d days  d hours  d minutes  d seconds   serverUptimeSeconds   86400    serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     60    serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     60

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Here is more precise method in JAVA   I have implemented this simple logic   hope this will help you       public String getDuration String  currentTimemilliSecond                long  currentTimeMiles   1                   int x   0          int seconds   0          int minutes   0          int hours   0          int days   0          int month   0          int year   0           try                         currentTimeMiles   Long parseLong  currentTimemilliSecond                    x in seconds                    x    int    currentTimeMiles   1000                 seconds   x                if seconds  gt 59                                minutes   seconds 60                    if minutes  gt  59                                        hours   minutes 60                       if hours  gt  23                                                days   hours 24                            if days  gt  30                                                        month   days 30                               if month  gt  11                                                                year   month 12                                   Log d  Year   year                                   Log d  Month   month 12                                   Log d  Days   days   30                                   Log d  hours    hours   24                                   Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                                   Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                       return  Year   year     Month   month 12    Days    days 30    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                            else                                                               Log d  Month   month                                   Log d  Days   days   30                                   Log d  hours    hours   24                                   Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                                   Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                       return  Month   month    Days    days 30    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                                                   else                                                       Log d  Days   days                                Log d  hours    hours   24                               Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                               Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                                   return  Days    days    hours   hours 24    Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                                       else                                               Log d  hours    hours                           Log d  Minutes    minutes   60                           Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                            return  hours   hours   Minutes   minutes  60   Seconds   seconds 60                                                          else                                       Log d  Minutes    minutes                       Log d  Seconds     seconds   60                        return  Minutes   minutes    Seconds   seconds 60                                              else                               Log d  Seconds    x                   return   Seconds   seconds                                  catch  Exception e                         Log e getClass   getName   toString    e toString                       return                private Class Log               public static void d String tag   int value                        System out println          Debug         tag         value

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I suggest to use http   www ocpsoft org prettytime   library    it s very simple to get time interval in human readable form like  PrettyTime p   new PrettyTime            System out println p format new Date       it will print like  moments from now   other example   PrettyTime p   new PrettyTime             Date d   new Date System currentTimeMillis             d setHours d getHours   - 1           String ago   p format d    then string ago    1 hour ago

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Your choices are simple    Write the code to do the conversion  ie  divide by milliSecondsPerDay to get days and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerHour to get hours and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerMinute and divide by 1000 for seconds   milliSecondsPerMinute   60000  milliSecondsPerHour   60   milliSecondsPerMinute  milliSecondsPerDay   24   milliSecondsPerHour  Use an operating routine of some kind   UNIX and Windows both have structures that you can get from a Ticks or seconds type value

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Long serverUptimeSeconds         System currentTimeMillis   - SINCE TIME IN MILLISECONDS    1000    String serverUptimeText    String format   d days  d hours  d minutes  d seconds   serverUptimeSeconds   86400    serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     60    serverUptimeSeconds   86400    3600     60

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A solution using awk    ms 10000001  awk -v ms  ms  BEGIN  x ms 1000                                        s x 60  x  60                                       m x 60  x  60                                       h x 60                                printf  quot  02d  02d  02d  03d n quot   h  m  s  ms 1000    02 46 40 001

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Apache Commons Lang has a DurationFormatUtils that has very helpful methods like formatDurationWords

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I would suggest using whatever date time functions libraries your language framework of choice provides   Also check out string formatting functions as they often provide easy ways to pass date timestamps and output a human readable string format

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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

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I would suggest using whatever date time functions libraries your language framework of choice provides   Also check out string formatting functions as they often provide easy ways to pass date timestamps and output a human readable string format

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A flexible way to do it    Not made for current date but good enough for durations       convert duration to a ms sec min hour day week array  param  int         msTime                time in milliseconds   param  bool        fillEmpty optional    fill array values even when they are 0   param  string      suffixes optional     add suffixes to returned values                                          values are filled with missings  0   return  int   string      time values from higher to lower ms  range     var msToTimeList function msTime fillEmpty suffixes       suffixes  suffixes instanceof Array  suffixes         suffixes is optional     var timeSteps  1000 60 60 24 7         time ranges   ms sec min hour day week     timeSteps push 1000000        add very big time at the end to stop cutting     var result         for var i 0  msTime gt 0  i lt 1  fillEmpty  amp  amp i lt timeSteps length i             var timerange   msTime timeSteps i           if typeof suffixes i     string                timerange  suffixes i      add suffix  converting                  and fill zeros               while   i lt timeSteps length-1  amp  amp                      timerange length lt   timeSteps i -1  suffixes i   length                    timerange  0  timerange                    result unshift timerange       stack time range from higher to lower         msTime   Math floor msTime timeSteps i              return result       NB   you could also set timeSteps as parameter if you want to control the time ranges     how to use  copy an test    var elsapsed   Math floor Math random   3000000000    console log      elsapsed  labels               msToTimeList elsapsed false   ms   sec   min   h   days   weeks    join             console log      half hour     msToTimeList elsapsed true  3  lt 30  first   second        console log      elsapsed  classic               msToTimeList elsapsed false                      join

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You should use the datetime functions of whatever language you re using  but  just for fun here s the code   int milliseconds   someNumber   int seconds   milliseconds   1000   int minutes   seconds   60   seconds    60   int hours   minutes   60   minutes    60   int days   hours   24   hours    24

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function convertTime time                var millis  time   1000      time   parseInt time 1000       var seconds   time   60      time   parseInt time 60       var minutes   time   60      time   parseInt time 60       var hours   time   24      var out           if hours  amp  amp  hours  gt  0  out    hours           hours    1   hr   hrs              if minutes  amp  amp  minutes  gt  0  out    minutes           minutes    1   min   mins              if seconds  amp  amp  seconds  gt  0  out    seconds           seconds    1   sec   secs              if millis amp  amp  millis gt  0  out    millis          millis   1   msec   msecs              return out trim

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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

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I suggest to use http   www ocpsoft org prettytime   library    it s very simple to get time interval in human readable form like  PrettyTime p   new PrettyTime            System out println p format new Date       it will print like  moments from now   other example   PrettyTime p   new PrettyTime             Date d   new Date System currentTimeMillis             d setHours d getHours   - 1           String ago   p format d    then string ago    1 hour ago

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Here s my solution using TimeUnit   UPDATE  I should point out that this is written in groovy  but Java is almost identical   def remainingStr          Days    int days   MILLISECONDS toDays remainingTime  as int remainingStr     days    1     1 Day          days  Days     remainingTime -  DAYS toMillis days      Hours    int hours   MILLISECONDS toHours remainingTime  as int remainingStr     hours    1     1 Hour          hours  Hours     remainingTime -  HOURS toMillis hours      Minutes    int minutes   MILLISECONDS toMinutes remainingTime  as int remainingStr     minutes    1     1 Minute          minutes  Minutes     remainingTime -  MINUTES toMillis minutes      Seconds    int seconds   MILLISECONDS toSeconds remainingTime  as int remainingStr     seconds    1     1 Second       seconds  Seconds

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In python 3 you could achieve your goal by using the following snippet  from datetime import timedelta  ms   536643021 td   timedelta milliseconds ms   print str td     -- gt  6 days  5 04 03 021000  Timedelta documentation  https   docs python org 3 library datetime html datetime timedelta Source of the   str   method of timedelta str  https   github com python cpython blob 33922cb0aa0c81ebff91ab4e938a58dfec2acf19 Lib datetime py L607

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In python 3 you could achieve your goal by using the following snippet  from datetime import timedelta  ms   536643021 td   timedelta milliseconds ms   print str td     -- gt  6 days  5 04 03 021000  Timedelta documentation  https   docs python org 3 library datetime html datetime timedelta Source of the   str   method of timedelta str  https   github com python cpython blob 33922cb0aa0c81ebff91ab4e938a58dfec2acf19 Lib datetime py L607

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I would suggest using whatever date time functions libraries your language framework of choice provides   Also check out string formatting functions as they often provide easy ways to pass date timestamps and output a human readable string format

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Let A be the amount of milliseconds  Then you have   seconds  A 1000  60 minutes  A  1000 60   60 hours  A  1000 60 60   24   and so on    is the modulus operator    Hope this helps

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Both solutions below use javascript  I had no idea the solution was language agnostic    Both solutions will need to be extended if capturing durations  gt  1 month   Solution 1  Use the Date object  var date   new Date 536643021   var str       str    date getUTCDate  -1     days     str    date getUTCHours       hours     str    date getUTCMinutes       minutes     str    date getUTCSeconds       seconds     str    date getUTCMilliseconds       millis   console log str     Gives    6 days  5 hours  4 minutes  3 seconds  21 millis    Libraries are helpful  but why use a library when you can re-invent the wheel      Solution 2  Write your own parser  var getDuration   function millis       var dur           var units              label  millis      mod 1000            label  seconds     mod 60            label  minutes     mod 60            label  hours       mod 24            label  days        mod 31                calculate the individual unit values        units forEach function u           millis    millis -  dur u label     millis   u mod      u mod                 convert object to a string representation        var nonZero   function u   return dur u label          dur toString   function            return units              reverse                filter nonZero               map function u                   return dur u label           dur u label   1 u label slice 0 -1  u label                               join                   return dur       Creates a  duration  object  with whatever fields you require  Formatting a timestamp then becomes simple     console log getDuration 536643021  toString       Gives    6 days  5 hours  4 minutes  3 seconds  21 millis

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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

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In java  public static String formatMs long millis        long hours   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toHours millis       long mins   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toMinutes millis       long secs   TimeUnit MILLISECONDS toSeconds millis       return String format   dh  d min   d sec               hours              mins - TimeUnit HOURS toMinutes hours               secs - TimeUnit MINUTES toSeconds mins             Gives something like this   12h 1 min  34 sec

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function convertTime time                var millis  time   1000      time   parseInt time 1000       var seconds   time   60      time   parseInt time 60       var minutes   time   60      time   parseInt time 60       var hours   time   24      var out           if hours  amp  amp  hours  gt  0  out    hours           hours    1   hr   hrs              if minutes  amp  amp  minutes  gt  0  out    minutes           minutes    1   min   mins              if seconds  amp  amp  seconds  gt  0  out    seconds           seconds    1   sec   secs              if millis amp  amp  millis gt  0  out    millis          millis   1   msec   msecs              return out trim

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Long expireTime   69l  Long tempParam   0l   Long seconds   math mod expireTime  60   tempParam   expireTime - seconds  expireTime   tempParam 60  Long minutes   math mod expireTime  60   tempParam   expireTime - minutes  expireTime   expireTime 60  Long hours   math mod expireTime  24   tempParam   expireTime - hours  expireTime   expireTime 24  Long days   math mod expireTime  30    system debug days         hours         minutes         seconds     This should print  0 0 1 9

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You should use the datetime functions of whatever language you re using  but  just for fun here s the code   int milliseconds   someNumber   int seconds   milliseconds   1000   int minutes   seconds   60   seconds    60   int hours   minutes   60   minutes    60   int days   hours   24   hours    24

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This is a method I wrote  It takes an integer milliseconds value and returns a human-readable String   public String convertMS int ms        int seconds    int    ms   1000    60       int minutes    int     ms   1000    60    60       int hours    int      ms   1000    60    60    24        String sec  min  hrs      if seconds lt 10   sec  0  seconds      else            sec     seconds      if minutes lt 10   min  0  minutes      else            min     minutes      if hours lt 10     hrs  0  hours      else            hrs     hours       if hours    0   return min     sec      else    return hrs     min     sec

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You should use the datetime functions of whatever language you re using  but  just for fun here s the code   int milliseconds   someNumber   int seconds   milliseconds   1000   int minutes   seconds   60   seconds    60   int hours   minutes   60   minutes    60   int days   hours   24   hours    24

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I would suggest using whatever date time functions libraries your language framework of choice provides   Also check out string formatting functions as they often provide easy ways to pass date timestamps and output a human readable string format

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Your choices are simple    Write the code to do the conversion  ie  divide by milliSecondsPerDay to get days and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerHour to get hours and use the modulus to divide by milliSecondsPerMinute and divide by 1000 for seconds   milliSecondsPerMinute   60000  milliSecondsPerHour   60   milliSecondsPerMinute  milliSecondsPerDay   24   milliSecondsPerHour  Use an operating routine of some kind   UNIX and Windows both have structures that you can get from a Ticks or seconds type value

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Why just don t do something like this   var ms   86400   var seconds   ms   1000    86 4  var minutes   seconds   60    1 4400000000000002  var hours   minutes   60    0 024000000000000004  var days   hours   24    0 0010000000000000002  And dealing with float precision e g  Number minutes toFixed 5     1 44

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This is a method I wrote  It takes an integer milliseconds value and returns a human-readable String   public String convertMS int ms        int seconds    int    ms   1000    60       int minutes    int     ms   1000    60    60       int hours    int      ms   1000    60    60    24        String sec  min  hrs      if seconds lt 10   sec  0  seconds      else            sec     seconds      if minutes lt 10   min  0  minutes      else            min     minutes      if hours lt 10     hrs  0  hours      else            hrs     hours       if hours    0   return min     sec      else    return hrs     min     sec

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A flexible way to do it    Not made for current date but good enough for durations       convert duration to a ms sec min hour day week array  param  int         msTime                time in milliseconds   param  bool        fillEmpty optional    fill array values even when they are 0   param  string      suffixes optional     add suffixes to returned values                                          values are filled with missings  0   return  int   string      time values from higher to lower ms  range     var msToTimeList function msTime fillEmpty suffixes       suffixes  suffixes instanceof Array  suffixes         suffixes is optional     var timeSteps  1000 60 60 24 7         time ranges   ms sec min hour day week     timeSteps push 1000000        add very big time at the end to stop cutting     var result         for var i 0  msTime gt 0  i lt 1  fillEmpty  amp  amp i lt timeSteps length i             var timerange   msTime timeSteps i           if typeof suffixes i     string                timerange  suffixes i      add suffix  converting                  and fill zeros               while   i lt timeSteps length-1  amp  amp                      timerange length lt   timeSteps i -1  suffixes i   length                    timerange  0  timerange                    result unshift timerange       stack time range from higher to lower         msTime   Math floor msTime timeSteps i              return result       NB   you could also set timeSteps as parameter if you want to control the time ranges     how to use  copy an test    var elsapsed   Math floor Math random   3000000000    console log      elsapsed  labels               msToTimeList elsapsed false   ms   sec   min   h   days   weeks    join             console log      half hour     msToTimeList elsapsed true  3  lt 30  first   second        console log      elsapsed  classic               msToTimeList elsapsed false                      join

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Let A be the amount of milliseconds  Then you have   seconds  A 1000  60 minutes  A  1000 60   60 hours  A  1000 60 60   24   and so on    is the modulus operator    Hope this helps

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Why just don t do something like this   var ms   86400   var seconds   ms   1000    86 4  var minutes   seconds   60    1 4400000000000002  var hours   minutes   60    0 024000000000000004  var days   hours   24    0 0010000000000000002  And dealing with float precision e g  Number minutes toFixed 5     1 44

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Let A be the amount of milliseconds  Then you have   seconds  A 1000  60 minutes  A  1000 60   60 hours  A  1000 60 60   24   and so on    is the modulus operator    Hope this helps

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Long expireTime   69l  Long tempParam   0l   Long seconds   math mod expireTime  60   tempParam   expireTime - seconds  expireTime   tempParam 60  Long minutes   math mod expireTime  60   tempParam   expireTime - minutes  expireTime   expireTime 60  Long hours   math mod expireTime  24   tempParam   expireTime - hours  expireTime   expireTime 24  Long days   math mod expireTime  30    system debug days         hours         minutes         seconds     This should print  0 0 1 9

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Let A be the amount of milliseconds  Then you have   seconds  A 1000  60 minutes  A  1000 60   60 hours  A  1000 60 60   24   and so on    is the modulus operator    Hope this helps

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Both solutions below use javascript  I had no idea the solution was language agnostic    Both solutions will need to be extended if capturing durations  gt  1 month   Solution 1  Use the Date object  var date   new Date 536643021   var str       str    date getUTCDate  -1     days     str    date getUTCHours       hours     str    date getUTCMinutes       minutes     str    date getUTCSeconds       seconds     str    date getUTCMilliseconds       millis   console log str     Gives    6 days  5 hours  4 minutes  3 seconds  21 millis    Libraries are helpful  but why use a library when you can re-invent the wheel      Solution 2  Write your own parser  var getDuration   function millis       var dur           var units              label  millis      mod 1000            label  seconds     mod 60            label  minutes     mod 60            label  hours       mod 24            label  days        mod 31                calculate the individual unit values        units forEach function u           millis    millis -  dur u label     millis   u mod      u mod                 convert object to a string representation        var nonZero   function u   return dur u label          dur toString   function            return units              reverse                filter nonZero               map function u                   return dur u label           dur u label   1 u label slice 0 -1  u label                               join                   return dur       Creates a  duration  object  with whatever fields you require  Formatting a timestamp then becomes simple     console log getDuration 536643021  toString       Gives    6 days  5 hours  4 minutes  3 seconds  21 millis

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I m not able to comment first answer to your question  but there s a small mistake  You should use parseInt or Math floor to convert floating point numbers to integer  i  var days  hours  minutes  seconds  x  x   ms   1000  seconds   Math floor x   60   x    60  minutes   Math floor x   60   x    60  hours   Math floor x   24   x    24  days   Math floor x     Personally  I use CoffeeScript in my projects and my code looks like that   getFormattedTime    ms - gt          x   ms   1000         seconds   Math floor x   60         x    60         minutes   Math floor x   60         x    60         hours   Math floor x   24         x    24         days   Math floor x         formattedTime      seconds s          if minutes then formattedTime      minutes m     formattedTime         if hours then formattedTime      hours h     formattedTime         formattedTime

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