From milliseconds to hour, minutes, seconds and milliseconds

Question

I need to go from milliseconds to a tuple of (hour, minutes, seconds, milliseconds) representing the same amount of time. E.g.:

10799999ms = 2h 59m 59s 999ms

Answer 1

milliseconds = 12884983  // or x milliseconds
hr = 0
min = 0
sec = 0 
day = 0
while (milliseconds >= 1000) {
  milliseconds = (milliseconds - 1000)
  sec = sec + 1
  if (sec >= 60) min = min + 1
  if (sec == 60) sec = 0
  if (min >= 60) hr = hr + 1
  if (min == 60) min = 0
  if (hr >= 24) {
    hr = (hr - 24)
    day = day + 1
  }
}

I hope that my shorter method will help you