How to convert ms to time with Python?

Question

How can I convert a number of ms to a date format like : HH/MM/SS/MS

For example, if I have 1900ms, I want to have: 0h 0min 1s 900ms

Thanks in advance for your help!

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '21 at 15:23

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You can use the timedelta() option from the datetime library. An example of it is:

import datetime

print(str(datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=600000)))

You can also use days, minutes, seconds instead of milliseconds. Link to the official documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta

answered Oct 25 '21 at 15:23

veedata

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The format is 0:05:33.150000 not 00:05:33.150 – Peter.k May 11 '23 at 19:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '21 at 15:23

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You can use datetime to convert milliseconds in timestamp

import datetime    
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ms/1000.0)

answered Oct 25 '21 at 15:23

Gianni Pinotti

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '21 at 15:23

Sure - divmod to the rescue:

def ms_to_hmsms(total_ms):
    rest, ms = divmod(int(total_ms), 1000)
    rest, s = divmod(rest, 60)
    rest, m = divmod(rest, 60)
    rest, h = divmod(rest, 60)
    return f"{h}h {m}min {s}s {ms}ms"


print(ms_to_hmsms(1900))
print(ms_to_hmsms(91462322926))

This prints out

0h 0min 1s 900ms
26h 12min 2s 926ms

How to convert ms to time with Python?

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