TimeSpan “pretty time” format in C#

Question

Typing in the title to this question brought me to this question. I\'m looking for the same thing, but something perhaps less statically formatted if you get what I mean?

Answer 1

And if you care about pluralization:

public static string ToPrettyFormat(this TimeSpan span) {

    if (span == TimeSpan.Zero) return "0 minutes";

    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    if (span.Days > 0)
        sb.AppendFormat("{0} day{1} ", span.Days, span.Days > 1 ? "s" : String.Empty);
    if (span.Hours > 0)
        sb.AppendFormat("{0} hour{1} ", span.Hours, span.Hours > 1 ? "s" : String.Empty);
    if (span.Minutes > 0)
        sb.AppendFormat("{0} minute{1} ", span.Minutes, span.Minutes > 1 ? "s" : String.Empty);
    return sb.ToString();

}