[SOLVED] Convert seconds to Days, Minutes and Seconds

Convert seconds to Days, Minutes and Seconds

I've been set the 'challenge' of converting seconds to format as the Days,Minutes and Seconds.

For example: 31600000 = 365 days, 46 minutes, 40 seconds.

using namespace std;
const int hours_in_day = 24;
const int mins_in_hour = 60;
const int secs_to_min = 60;

long input_seconds;
cin >> input_seconds;

long seconds = input_seconds % secs_to_min;
long minutes = input_seconds / secs_to_min % mins_in_hour;
long days = input_seconds / secs_to_min / mins_in_hour / hours_in_day;

cout << input_seconds << " seconds = "
     << days << " days, "
     << minutes << " minutes, "
     << seconds << " seconds ";

return 0;

It works and comes up with the correct answer but after completing it I looked at how other people had tackled it and theirs was different. I'm wondering If I'm missing something.

Solution

One of the things about programming is that there is never just one way to do something. In fact if I were to set my mind to it, I might be able to come up with a dozen completely different ways to accomplish this. You're not missing anything if your code meets requirements.

For your amusement, here's a way to format up hours:minutes:seconds under Windows (elapsed is a double & represents number of seconds elapsed since... something)

sprintf_s<bufSize>(buf, "%01.0f:%02.0f:%02.2f", floor(elapsed/3600.0), floor(fmod(elapsed,3600.0)/60.0), fmod(elapsed,60.0));