Convert time by jQuery

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From the youtube player http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=youtube#chromeless_player I get a time value in seconds, like '243.577'. Let it be a simple string.

How do I convert it to the value like: '04:35'? Like 4 minutes and 35 seconds (hope I made right calculations) for this example.

If the value is just 5 seconds, then it should give something like '00:05'. If negative, then '00:00'.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 03 '13 at 20:16

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var raw = "-54";

var time = parseInt(raw,10);
time = time < 0 ? 0 : time;

var minutes = Math.floor(time / 60);
var seconds = time % 60;

minutes = minutes < 10 ? "0"+minutes : minutes;
seconds = seconds < 10 ? "0"+seconds : seconds;

alert(minutes+":"+seconds);

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/8zPRF/

UPDATE

Some added lines for negative numbers and string format: http://jsfiddle.net/8zPRF/3/

edited Jul 03 '13 at 20:16

Miro

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answered Jun 28 '11 at 01:00

amosrivera

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for -54 it gives -1:-54, it would be perfect, if you fix that – James Jun 28 '11 at 01:06
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This is great, but you should be doing either "minutes <= 9" or "minutes < 10". As it is, 0-8 have a zero added to them, 9 drops to a single digit. Thanks for the code! – Jake May 27 '13 at 20:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 00:59

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You can do something like

var d = new Date(milliseconds);

You don't need jQuery for this.

answered Jun 28 '11 at 00:59

Mrchief

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once you have a date object, you can format it any way you want. – Mrchief Jun 28 '11 at 01:01
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if I know how to do that, I would not ask – James Jun 28 '11 at 01:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 01:01

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I find the Date.js library extremely helpful when dealing with dates. It extends the built in javascript Date object.

E.g.

var timeString = new Date(seconds * 1000).toString('mm:ss');

answered Jun 28 '11 at 01:01

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