Hey I was using this approach: (thread) to split my seconds into minutes and seconds. However if I g...

# getting-started

[Jan]

Hey I was using this approach: (thread) to split my seconds into minutes and seconds. However if I get seconds > 3600 this one doesn't work anymore as seen in the picture. Anyone got a better solution?

[Jan]

grafik.png

[Jan]

(sum is the total seconds)

[Jan]

seconds = 13

[akatkov]

val newMinutes = sum / 60 would get you the number of minutes, but it looks like you’re trying to keep track of the number of hours as well

[Jan]

didn't want to before but I think I'll just add hours to it

[Jan]

is probably the easiest way

[akatkov]

the number of seconds left over after splitting as many seconds as possible into hours and minutes would be val seconds = ((seconds % 3600) % 60)

[Casey Brooks]

Converting it to a Duration will probably be the easiest, let the stblib do the math for you.

val sumDuration: Duration = sum.seconds
        val totalHours: Long = sumDuration.inWholeHours
        val totalMinutes: Long = sumDuration.inWholeMinutes
        val totalSeconds: Long = sumDuration.inWholeSeconds

[Jan]

thats true thanks

[Casey Brooks]

There’s a lot of helper functions to do whatever you need with the Duration. The simplest is just calling .toString() to get a nicely-formatted, human-readable duration. The .toComponents { } functions split the value out into the component parts if you need to do something else with them