Android Question How to display durations

[mjcoon]

I thought I would be able to use DateTime.Time() to display a duration which happens to originate in milliseconds (from SimpleExoPlayer).

My first test value was 311797mS, or ~311 seconds or ~5minutes.

But what I see is "01:05:11", in other words an extra hour. I can hardly add a negative hour's worth of millliseconds and expect to get a sensible answer. And DateTime is only specified to be relative to 1 January 1970, not to 01:00 on that date. So what is recoommended for displaying durations in HH:MM:SS elapsed?

 

[Mahares]

So what is recoommended for displaying durations in HH:MM:SS elapsed?

Dim m As Long = 311797  
    Dim p As Period = DateUtils.PeriodBetween(0,m)
    Log($"$2.0{p.Hours}:$2.0{p.Minutes}:$2.0{p.Seconds}"$)  'displays 00:05:11

 

[Erel]

I thought I would be able to use DateTime.Time()

This is a common mistake. Watch the date and time video tutorial for more information: https://www.b4x.com/etp.html

Convert milliseconds to time string: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-convert-milliseconds-to-string.89851/#content