Converting milliseconds to human amount of time

[Rocco Moretti]

Max wrote:
> Harlin Seritt wrote:
> 
>> How can I take a time given in milliseconds (I am doing this for an
>> uptime script) and convert it to human-friendly time i.e. "4 days, 2
>> hours, 25 minutes, 10 seonds."? Is there a function from the time
>> module that can do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Harlin Seritt
>>
> 
> seconds = millis / 1000 # obviously
> 
> minutes = seconds / 60
> seconds %= 60
> 
> hours = minutes / 60
> minutes %= 60
> 
> days = hours / 24
> hours %= 24
> 
> All this using integer division, of course. This is probably much more 
> verbose than the tersest soln, but it works (or should do - I haven't 
> tested it). It's not strictly accurate (from a scientific/UTC 
> perspective, as some minutes have 59 or 61 seconds rather than 60, but 
> it's probably the best you need.

You'd probably be helped by divmod:

 >>> help(divmod)
Help on built-in function divmod in module __builtin__:

divmod(...)
     divmod(x, y) -> (div, mod)

     Return the tuple ((x-x%y)/y, x%y).  Invariant: div*y + mod == x.

 >>> def humanize(milli):
	sec, milli = divmod(milli, 1000)
	min, sec = divmod(sec, 60)
	hour, min = divmod(min, 60)
	day, hour = divmod(hour, 24)
	week, day = divmod(day, 7)
	print week, "weeks,", day, "days,", hour, "hours,", \
	      min, "minutes,", sec, "seconds, and", \
               milli, "milliseconds"
	return (week, day, hour, min, sec, milli)

 >>> humanize(1234567890)
2 weeks, 0 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes, 7 seconds, and 890 milliseconds
(2, 0, 6, 56, 7, 890)
 >>> humanize(694861001.1) #Also works with floats!
1.0 weeks, 1.0 days, 1.0 hours, 1.0 minutes, 1.0 seconds, and 
1.10000002384 milliseconds
(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.1000000238418579)