conversion from NSTimeInterval to hour,minutes,seconds,milliseconds in swift

Question

My code is here:

func stringFromTimeInterval(interval:NSTimeInterval) -> NSString {

    var ti = NSInteger(interval)
    var ms = ti * 1000
    var secon         


        

Answer 1

Swift supports remainder calculations on floating-point numbers, so we can use % 1.

var ms = Int((interval % 1) * 1000)

as in:

func stringFromTimeInterval(interval: TimeInterval) -> NSString {

  let ti = NSInteger(interval)

  let ms = Int((interval % 1) * 1000)

  let seconds = ti % 60
  let minutes = (ti / 60) % 60
  let hours = (ti / 3600)

  return NSString(format: "%0.2d:%0.2d:%0.2d.%0.3d",hours,minutes,seconds,ms)
}

result:

stringFromTimeInterval(12345.67)                   "03:25:45.670"

Swift 4:

extension TimeInterval{

        func stringFromTimeInterval() -> String {

            let time = NSInteger(self)

            let ms = Int((self.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1)) * 1000)
            let seconds = time % 60
            let minutes = (time / 60) % 60
            let hours = (time / 3600)

            return String(format: "%0.2d:%0.2d:%0.2d.%0.3d",hours,minutes,seconds,ms)

        }
    }

Use:

self.timeLabel.text = player.duration.stringFromTimeInterval()

Answer 2

I think most of those answers are outdated, you should always use DateComponentsFormatter if you want to display a string representing a time interval, because it will handle padding and localization for you.

Answer 3

swift 3 version of @hixField answer, now with days and handling previous dates:

extension TimeInterval {
    func timeIntervalAsString(_ format : String = "dd days, hh hours, mm minutes, ss seconds, sss ms") -> String {
        var asInt   = NSInteger(self)
        let ago = (asInt < 0)
        if (ago) {
            asInt = -asInt
        }
        let ms = Int(self.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1) * (ago ? -1000 : 1000))
        let s = asInt % 60
        let m = (asInt / 60) % 60
        let h = ((asInt / 3600))%24
        let d = (asInt / 86400)

        var value = format
        value = value.replacingOccurrences(of: "hh", with: String(format: "%0.2d", h))
        value = value.replacingOccurrences(of: "mm",  with: String(format: "%0.2d", m))
        value = value.replacingOccurrences(of: "sss", with: String(format: "%0.3d", ms))
        value = value.replacingOccurrences(of: "ss",  with: String(format: "%0.2d", s))
        value = value.replacingOccurrences(of: "dd",  with: String(format: "%d", d))
        if (ago) {
            value += " ago"
        }
        return value
    }

}