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Number of seconds to minutes and seconds

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:09 am
by ianripping
Hi,

I have a script that is returning a time in a number of seconds eg 218 seconds.
Is there a function in PHP,(im sure there will be) that will change say 69 seconds, to 01:09?

Thanks in advance

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:38 am
by volka
Does

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<?php echo date('H:i:s', 218); ?>
suffice?

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:59 am
by ianripping
volka wrote:Does

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<?php echo date('H:i:s', 218); ?>
suffice?
This print 01:03:38 - why is the hour 01? it should be 00

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:39 am
by volka
oh sorry, date() takes the server's timezone into account.
00:00:00 1970 GMT was 01:00:00 1970 in your timezone.

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<?php echo gmdate('H:i:s', 218); ?>
prints 00:03:38

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:57 am
by feyd
Alternately, you could use printf's (that's the username, not the function) snippet found in Code Snippets.

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:09 am
by ianripping
volka wrote:oh sorry, date() takes the server's timezone into account.
00:00:00 1970 GMT was 01:00:00 1970 in your timezone.

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<?php echo gmdate('H:i:s', 218); ?>
prints 00:03:38
Thanks, works great