How to convert seconds to minutes and hours in javascript

Question

I have a count of seconds stored in variable seconds. I want to convert for example 1439 seconds to 23 minutes and 59 seconds. And if the time is greater than 1 hour (for example 9432 seconds), to 2 hours, 37 minutes and 12 seconds.

How can I achieve this?

I'm thinking of:

var sec, min, hour;  if(seconds<3600){     var a = Math.floor(seconds/60); //minutes     var b = seconds%60; //seconds      if (b!=1){         sec = "seconds";     }else{         sec = "second";     }      if(a!=1){         min = "minutes";     }else{         min = "minute";     }      $('span').text("You have played "+a+" "+min+" and "+b+" "+sec+"."); }else{         var a = Math.floor(seconds/3600); //hours     var x = seconds%3600;     var b = Math.floor(x/60); //minutes     var c = seconds%60; //seconds       if (c!=1){         sec = "seconds";     }else{         sec = "second";     }      if(b!=1){         min = "minutes";     }else{         min = "minute";     }      if(c!=1){         hour = "hours";     }else{         hour = "hour";     }      $('span').text("You have played "+a+" "+hour+", "+b+" "+min+" and "+c+" "+sec+"."); } 

But that's a lot of code, and it has to be calculated each second. How can I shrink this up?

Answer 1

I think you would find this solution very helpful.

You modify the display format to fit your needs with something like this -

function secondsToHms(d) {     d = Number(d);     var h = Math.floor(d / 3600);     var m = Math.floor(d % 3600 / 60);     var s = Math.floor(d % 3600 % 60);      var hDisplay = h > 0 ? h + (h == 1 ? " hour, " : " hours, ") : "";     var mDisplay = m > 0 ? m + (m == 1 ? " minute, " : " minutes, ") : "";     var sDisplay = s > 0 ? s + (s == 1 ? " second" : " seconds") : "";     return hDisplay + mDisplay + sDisplay;  } 

Answer 2

You can try this, i have used this successfully in the past You should be able to add the minutes and seconds on easily

function secondsToTime(secs) {     var hours = Math.floor(secs / (60 * 60));      var divisor_for_minutes = secs % (60 * 60);     var minutes = Math.floor(divisor_for_minutes / 60);      var divisor_for_seconds = divisor_for_minutes % 60;     var seconds = Math.ceil(divisor_for_seconds);      var obj = {         "h": hours,         "m": minutes,         "s": seconds     };     return obj; } 

Fiddle

You can change the object to

var obj = {         "h": hours + " hours",         "m": minutes + " minutes",         "s": seconds + " seconds"     };