From: Andy Delcambre <adelcambre@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T19:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds

As long as you dont go past 24 hours you can use the Time class:

irb(main):016:0> Time.at(7683).gmtime.strftime('%R:%S')
=> "02:08:03"

If you dont use gmtime, it will go based off your localtime, where the
epoch = the offset from GMT.

also by doing the arithmatic:
irb(main):023:0> time = 7683
=> 7683
irb(main):024:0> hours = time/3600.to_i
=> 2
irb(main):025:0> minutes = (time/60 - hours * 60).to_i
=> 8
irb(main):026:0> seconds = (time - (minutes * 60 + hours * 3600))
=> 3
irb(main):030:0> printf("%02d:%02d:%02d\n", hours, minutes, seconds)
02:08:03
=> nil

HTH
 - Andy Delcambre

On 12/14/05, `p <a@o.e> wrote:
> hello!
> i am trying to convert a number of seconds to a nicely formatted string
> like this:
>
> 7683 seconds = 02:08:03
>
> is there an easy way to accomplish this?
>
>