I want to record the time using System.currentTimeMillis()
when a user begins something in my program. When he finishes, I will subtract the current Syste
There is a problem. When milliseconds is 59999, actually it is 1 minute but it will be computed as 59 seconds and 999 milliseconds is lost.
Here is a modified version based on previous answers, which can solve this loss:
public static String formatTime(long millis) {
long seconds = Math.round((double) millis / 1000);
long hours = TimeUnit.SECONDS.toHours(seconds);
if (hours > 0)
seconds -= TimeUnit.HOURS.toSeconds(hours);
long minutes = seconds > 0 ? TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMinutes(seconds) : 0;
if (minutes > 0)
seconds -= TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(minutes);
return hours > 0 ? String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", hours, minutes, seconds) : String.format("%02d:%02d", minutes, seconds);
}