How can I “pretty print” a Duration in Java?

Question

Does anyone know of a Java library that can pretty print a number in milliseconds in the same way that C# does?

E.g., 123456 ms as a long would be printed as 4d1h3m5

Answer 1

I've built a simple solution, using Java 8's Duration.toString() and a bit of regex:

public static String humanReadableFormat(Duration duration) {
    return duration.toString()
            .substring(2)
            .replaceAll("(\\d[HMS])(?!$)", "$1 ")
            .toLowerCase();
}

The result will look like:

- 5h
- 7h 15m
- 6h 50m 15s
- 2h 5s
- 0.1s

If you don't want spaces between, just remove replaceAll.