iOS Convert Seconds into hours,minutes and seconds

Hi all,

In building iPhone applications you may have come across situations that you count some time in seconds, but wish to let the user view it in a more readable format such as 1 hour 38 minutes and 44 seconds. Here is a piece of code that I wrote if you need to get this done in your code.

- (NSString *)timeFormatted:(int)totalSeconds

{

    int seconds = totalSeconds % 60;

    int minutes = (totalSeconds / 60) % 60;

    int hours = totalSeconds / 3600;

   

    NSString *timeString =@"";

    NSString *formatString=@"";

    if(hours > 0){

        formatString=hours==1?@"%d hour":@"%d hours";

        timeString = [timeString stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:formatString,hours]];

    }

    if(minutes > 0 || hours > 0 ){

        formatString=minutes==1?@" %d minute":@" %d minutes";

        timeString = [timeString stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:formatString,minutes]];

    }

    if(seconds > 0 || hours > 0 || minutes > 0){

        formatString=seconds==1?@" %d second":@" %d seconds";

        timeString  = [timeString stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:formatString,seconds]];

    }

    return timeString;

      

}

This code checks to see if the number of hours, minutes or seconds is equal to one and displays either hour/hours, minute/minutes or second/seconds accordingly.

Have fun coding, guys & gals !!!