Returning Time Components with Modulus

Question

Someone does 20 Hours 42 Minutes & 16 Seconds in one shift totaling 74536 seconds. How do I get the hours from number of seconds the person has done for that shift?

20 * 60 * 60      =    72000
     42 * 60      =     2520
          16      =       16
                  +    -----
Total             =    74536
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Total % 60        =  Seconds (16)
Total % ?         =  Minutes (42)
Total % ?         =    Hours (20)

Tried 84600 already; turns out when a number is lower the modulus, it really is not very helpful, and something I am going to have to catch should someone only sign in for a few seconds ...

Answer 1

You need to use both modulus and division:

t = seconds_in_shift;
secs = t % 60;
t /= 60;
mins = t % 60;
t /= 60;
hour = t;

Or:

secs =  ttime % 60;
mins = (ttime / 60) % 60;
hour =  ttime / 3600;

One other option uses the div() function from Standard C (<stdlib.h>):

div_t v1 = div(ttime, 60);
div_t v2 = div(v1.quot, 60);

After that, v1.rem contains the seconds; v2.rem contains the minutes, and v2.quot contains the hours based on the number of seconds originally in ttime.

Answer 2

Based on Jonathan's reply, I believe the accurate answer should be this…

$total_time = 61000;
$sec = $total_time % 60;
$total_time = ($total_time - $sec) / 60;
$min = $total_time % 60;
$hour = ($total_time - $min) / 60;
echo "$hour hours, $min minutes and $sec seconds";

But if your server has PHP7 installed, you can use the intdiv() function. An integer division in which the remainder is discarded.

// $hour = ($total_time - $min) / 60; old code but still works
$hour = intdiv($total_time, 60); // PHP7 and above code