From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T20:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds


Everytime you use printf, God kills a kitten.

time = 7683
p [time/3600, time/60 % 60, time % 60].map{|t| t.to_s.rjust(2,
'0')}.join(':') 

=> "02:08:03"

cheers

Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Delcambre [mailto:adelcambre@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:21 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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?
> >
> >
> 
>