convert joda-time seconds to formatted time string

Question

say I have 110 seconds that I want to convert to 01:50 or 00:01:50 or such. How do I do that in joda-time? I load the number into Seconds but then

Answer 1

You can build a formatter for your format and use that. To get the time in seconds only normalized to minutes/seconds, use normalizedStandard();

PeriodFormatter myFormat =
    new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
        .printZeroAlways().minimumPrintedDigits(2).appendMinutes()
        .appendSeparator(":")
        .printZeroAlways().minimumPrintedDigits(2).appendSeconds()
        .toFormatter();

Period period = Period.seconds(110).normalizedStandard();
System.out.println(myFormat.print(period));

> 01:50