How to convert seconds to time format? [duplicate]

Answer 1

This might be simpler

gmdate("H:i:s", $seconds)

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Answer 2

just one small additional example

requested time in miliseconds

    // ms2time( (microtime(true) - ( time() - rand(0,1000000) ) ) );
    // return array
    function ms2time($ms){
        $return = array();
        // ms
        $return['ms'] = (int) number_format( ($ms - (int) $ms), 2, '', '');
        $seconds = (int) $ms;
        unset($ms);

        if ($seconds%60 > 0){
            $return['s'] = $seconds%60;
        } else {
            $return['s'] = 0;
        }

        if ( ($minutes = intval($seconds/60))){
            $return['m'] = $minutes;
        }

        if (isset($return['m'])){
            $return['h'] = intval($return['m'] / 60);
            $return['m']  = $return['m'] % 60; 
        }


        if (isset($return['h'])){
            $return['d'] = intval($return['h'] / 24);
            $return['h']  = $return['h'] % 24; 
        }

        if (isset($return['d']))
            $return['mo'] = intval($return['d'] / 30);

        foreach($return as $k=>$v){
            if ($v == 0)
                unset($return[$k]);
        }

        return $return;
    }

    // ms2time2string( (microtime(true) - ( time() - rand(0,1000000) ) ) );
    // return array     
    function ms2time2string($ms){
        $array = array(
            'ms' => 'ms',
            's'  => 'seconds',
            'm'  => 'minutes',
            'h'  => 'hours',
            'd'  => 'days',
            'mo' => 'month',
        );


        if ( ( $return = ms2time($ms) )  && count($ms) > 0){

            foreach($return as $key=>$data){
                $return[$key] = $data .' '.$array[$key];
            }

        }
        return implode(" ", array_reverse($return));
    }

Answer 3

If You want nice format like: 0:00:00 use str_pad() as @Gardner.