How to convert seconds to time format? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Maybe the simplest way is:

gmdate('H:i:s', $your_time_in_seconds);

Answer 2

Another solution that will give you the days, hours, minutes, and seconds for a passed-in seconds value:

function seconds_to_time($secs)
{
    $dt = new DateTime('@' . $secs, new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
    return array('days'    => $dt->format('z'),
                 'hours'   => $dt->format('G'),
                 'minutes' => $dt->format('i'),
                 'seconds' => $dt->format('s'));
}

print_r(seconds_to_time($seconds_value);

Extra logic will be needed for 'days' if the time is expected to be more than one year. Use str_pad() or ltrim() to add/remove leading zeros.

Answer 3

If the you know the times will be less than an hour, you could just use the date() or $date->format() functions.

$minsandsecs = date('i:s',$numberofsecs);

This works because the system epoch time begins at midnight (on 1 Jan 1970, but that's not important for you).

If it's an hour or more but less than a day, you could output it in hours:mins:secs format with `

$hoursminsandsecs = date('H:i:s',$numberofsecs);

For more than a day, you'll need to use modulus to calculate the number of days, as this is where the start date of the epoch would become relevant.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Sorry this is too late but maybe useful

function mediaTimeDeFormater($seconds)
{
    if (!is_numeric($seconds))
        throw new Exception("Invalid Parameter Type!");


    $ret = "";

    $hours = (string )floor($seconds / 3600);
    $secs = (string )$seconds % 60;
    $mins = (string )floor(($seconds - ($hours * 3600)) / 60);

    if (strlen($hours) == 1)
        $hours = "0" . $hours;
    if (strlen($secs) == 1)
        $secs = "0" . $secs;
    if (strlen($mins) == 1)
        $mins = "0" . $mins;

    if ($hours == 0)
        $ret = "$mins:$secs";
    else
        $ret = "$hours:$mins:$secs";

    return $ret;
}

echo mediaTimeDeFormater(216.064000);//3:36

Answer 5

Here is another way with leading '0' for all of them.

$secCount = 10000;
$hours = str_pad(floor($secCount / (60*60)), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
$minutes = str_pad(floor(($secCount - $hours*60*60)/60), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
$seconds = str_pad(floor($secCount - ($hours*60*60 + $minutes*60)), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);

It is an adaptation from the answer of Flaxious.

Answer 6

If you were to hardcode it you would use modulus to extract the time as others suggested.

If you are returning the seconds from MySQL database, assuming you don't need the data in seconds format in your app, there is a much cleaner way to do it, you can use MySQL's SEC_TO_TIME and it will return time in hh:mm:ss format.

Eg.

SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(my_seconds_field) AS my_timestring;