Convert seconds to days, minutes, and hours in Obj-c

Question

In objective-c, how can I convert an integer (representing seconds) to days, minutes, an hours?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the built-in function strftime():

static char timestr[80];
char * HHMMSS ( time_t secs )
{
    struct tm ts;
    ts = *localtime(&secs);
    strftime(timestr, sizeof(timestr), "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z", &ts); // "Mon May 1, 2012 hh:mm:ss zzz"
    return timestr;
}