Convert seconds to compound duration: Difference between revisions

<lang applescript>on secondsToCompoundDuration(s)

if ((s's class is not integer) or (s < 0)) then

error "secondsToCompoundDuration() handler only accepts positive integers."

else if (s = 0) then

-- The task description notwithstanding, return "0 sec" if the input is the positive integer 0.

set output to "0 sec"

else

-- Otherwise perform the described task.

set suffixes to {" wk", " d", " hr", " min", " sec"}

-- AppleScript has constants for the number of seconds in a week, a day, an hour, and a minute.

set durationConstants to {weeks, days, hours, minutes, 1}

-- Initialise a list to collect the output.

set output to {}

-- Work through the list of constants.

repeat with i from 1 to 5

-- Get the next constant and divide the number of seconds by it to get the number of corresponding units.

set thisConstant to item i of durationConstants

set unitValue to s div thisConstant

-- If the number of units isn't zero, coerce it to text, concatenate the corresponding suffix, and add the result to the output list.

if (unitValue > 0) then set end of output to (unitValue as text) & item i of suffixes

-- Get the number of seconds left over for use in the next iteration of the repeat.

set s to s mod thisConstant

-- Short-cut out of the repeat if no seconds remaining, although this isn't strictly necessary.

if (s = 0) then exit repeat

end repeat

-- Coerce the list of collected results to a single text using ", " as a delimiter.

set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "

set output to output as text

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid

end if

return output

end secondsToCompoundDuration

return secondsToCompoundDuration(7259) & linefeed & ¬

secondsToCompoundDuration(86400) & linefeed & ¬

secondsToCompoundDuration(6000000)</lang>

{{output}}

<pre>"2 hr, 59 sec

1 d

9 wk, 6 d, 10 hr, 40 min"</pre>

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