A Foundation defined type. Always in seconds; yields submillisecond precision over a range of 10,000 years.
typedef double NSTimeInterval;
[http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/TypesAndConstants/FoundationTypes.html]
Whilst NSDateFormatter is great for formatting dates and times, is there something standard and localised for formatting a NSTimeInterval, e.g. to show “5 seconds”, or “3:45 minutes”, “7:32:03 hours”, “1.5 days”, etc?
Currently I’m using:
float time = ....;
const int secsPerMin = 60;
const int secsPerHour = secsPerMin * 60;
const int secsPerDay = 24 * secsPerHour;
const char *timeSep = ":"; //@TODO localise...
const char *secsName = "secs";
const char *minsName = "mins";
const char *hrsName = "hrs";
const char *daysName = "days";
int hrs = time/secsPerHour;
if(hrs > 36) return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%0.2f %s", time/secsPerDay, daysName];
if(time < 60.0) return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%0.2f %s", time, secsName];
time -= hrs*secsPerHour;
int mins = time/secsPerMin;
time -= mins*secsPerMin;
int secs = time;
if(hrs == 0) return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d%s%02d %s", mins, timeSep, secs, minsName];
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d%s%02d%s%02d %s", hrs, timeSep, mins, timeSep, secs, hrsName];