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JavaScript – Convert a timestamp to a string "X days X hours X minutes X seconds X milliseconds". Useful to show elapsed time since [event]
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timestamp2string.js
function timestamp2string(timestamp, useMilliseconds) {
var string = '',
periods = {
day: 86400000,
hour: 3600000,
minute: 60000,
second: 1000,
millisecond: 1
},
period;
if (!useMilliseconds) {
timestamp *= 1000;
delete periods.millisecond;
}
for (period in periods) {
var number = Math.floor(timestamp / periods[period]);
timestamp -= (number * periods[period]);
string += (number !== 0 ? number + ' ' + period + ((number !== 1) ? 's' : '') + ' ' : '');
}
return string.trim();
}
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Pustur commented Apr 26, 2016 •
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Outputs:

timestampToString(1);             // 1 second
timestampToString(1, true);       // 1 millisecond

timestampToString(1001);          // 16 minutes 41 seconds
timestampToString(1001, true);    // 1 second 1 millisecond

timestampToString(1492471);       // 17 days 6 hours 34 minutes 31 seconds
timestampToString(1492471, true); // 24 minutes 52 seconds 471 milliseconds

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