How about creating a function like this:

function msToTime(duration) {
var milliseconds = Math.floor((duration % 1000) / 100),
seconds = Math.floor((duration / 1000) % 60),
minutes = Math.floor((duration / (1000 * 60)) % 60),
hours = Math.floor((duration / (1000 * 60 * 60)) % 24);


hours = (hours < 10) ? "0" + hours : hours;
minutes = (minutes < 10) ? "0" + minutes : minutes;
seconds = (seconds < 10) ? "0" + seconds : seconds;


return hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds + "." + milliseconds;
}
console.log(msToTime(300000))

To Convert time in millisecond to human readable format.

function msToTime(ms) {
let seconds = (ms / 1000).toFixed(1);
let minutes = (ms / (1000 * 60)).toFixed(1);
let hours = (ms / (1000 * 60 * 60)).toFixed(1);
let days = (ms / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)).toFixed(1);
if (seconds < 60) return seconds + " Sec";
else if (minutes < 60) return minutes + " Min";
else if (hours < 24) return hours + " Hrs";
else return days + " Days"
}


console.log(msToTime(1000))
console.log(msToTime(10000))
console.log(msToTime(300000))
console.log(msToTime(3600000))
console.log(msToTime(86400000))

I had the same problem, this is what I ended up doing:

function parseMillisecondsIntoReadableTime(milliseconds){
//Get hours from milliseconds
var hours = milliseconds / (1000*60*60);
var absoluteHours = Math.floor(hours);
var h = absoluteHours > 9 ? absoluteHours : '0' + absoluteHours;


//Get remainder from hours and convert to minutes
var minutes = (hours - absoluteHours) * 60;
var absoluteMinutes = Math.floor(minutes);
var m = absoluteMinutes > 9 ? absoluteMinutes : '0' +  absoluteMinutes;


//Get remainder from minutes and convert to seconds
var seconds = (minutes - absoluteMinutes) * 60;
var absoluteSeconds = Math.floor(seconds);
var s = absoluteSeconds > 9 ? absoluteSeconds : '0' + absoluteSeconds;




return h + ':' + m + ':' + s;
}




var time = parseMillisecondsIntoReadableTime(86400000);


alert(time);

This one returns time like youtube videos

    function getYoutubeLikeToDisplay(millisec) {
var seconds = (millisec / 1000).toFixed(0);
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
var hours = "";
if (minutes > 59) {
hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
hours = (hours >= 10) ? hours : "0" + hours;
minutes = minutes - (hours * 60);
minutes = (minutes >= 10) ? minutes : "0" + minutes;
}


seconds = Math.floor(seconds % 60);
seconds = (seconds >= 10) ? seconds : "0" + seconds;
if (hours != "") {
return hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
}
return minutes + ":" + seconds;
}

Output:

• getYoutubeLikeToDisplay(129900) = "2:10"
• getYoutubeLikeToDisplay(1229900) = "20:30"
• getYoutubeLikeToDisplay(21229900) = "05:53:50"

my solution

var sunriseMills = 1517573074000;         // sunrise in NewYork on Feb 3, 2018  - UTC time
var offsetCityMills = -5 * 3600 * 1000;   // NewYork delay to UTC
var offsetDeviceMills =  new Date().getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000 ;  // eg. I live in Romania (UTC+2) >> getTimezoneOffset() = 120


var textTime = new Date(sunriseMills + offsetCityMills + offsetDeviceMills)
.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', { hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric' });

textTime will become '7.04 AM'

Based on @Chand answer. This is the implementation in Typescript. A bit safer than coercing types in JS. If you remove the type annotation should be valid JS. Also using new string functions to normalise the time.

function displayTime(millisec: number) {
const normalizeTime = (time: string): string => (time.length === 1) ? time.padStart(2, '0') : time;


let seconds: string = (millisec / 1000).toFixed(0);
let minutes: string = Math.floor(parseInt(seconds) / 60).toString();
let hours: string = '';


if (parseInt(minutes) > 59) {
hours = normalizeTime(Math.floor(parseInt(minutes) / 60).toString());
minutes = normalizeTime((parseInt(minutes) - (parseInt(hours) * 60)).toString());
}
seconds = normalizeTime(Math.floor(parseInt(seconds) % 60).toString());


if (hours !== '') {
return `${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}`;
}
return `${minutes}:${seconds}`;
}

The above snippets don't work for cases with more than 1 day (They are simply ignored).

For this you can use:

function convertMS(ms) {
var d, h, m, s;
s = Math.floor(ms / 1000);
m = Math.floor(s / 60);
s = s % 60;
h = Math.floor(m / 60);
m = m % 60;
d = Math.floor(h / 24);
h = h % 24;
h += d * 24;
return h + ':' + m + ':' + s;
}

Thanks to https://gist.github.com/remino/1563878

This solution uses one function to split milliseconds into a parts object, and another function to format the parts object.

I created 2 format functions, one as you requested, and another that prints a friendly string and considering singular/plural, and includes an option to show milliseconds.

function parseDuration(duration) {
let remain = duration


let days = Math.floor(remain / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24))
remain = remain % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)


let hours = Math.floor(remain / (1000 * 60 * 60))
remain = remain % (1000 * 60 * 60)


let minutes = Math.floor(remain / (1000 * 60))
remain = remain % (1000 * 60)


let seconds = Math.floor(remain / (1000))
remain = remain % (1000)


let milliseconds = remain


return {
days,
hours,
minutes,
seconds,
milliseconds
};
}


function formatTime(o, useMilli = false) {
let parts = []
if (o.days) {
let ret = o.days + ' day'
if (o.days !== 1) {
ret += 's'
}
parts.push(ret)
}
if (o.hours) {
let ret = o.hours + ' hour'
if (o.hours !== 1) {
ret += 's'
}
parts.push(ret)
}
if (o.minutes) {
let ret = o.minutes + ' minute'
if (o.minutes !== 1) {
ret += 's'
}
parts.push(ret)


}
if (o.seconds) {
let ret = o.seconds + ' second'
if (o.seconds !== 1) {
ret += 's'
}
parts.push(ret)
}
if (useMilli && o.milliseconds) {
let ret = o.milliseconds + ' millisecond'
if (o.milliseconds !== 1) {
ret += 's'
}
parts.push(ret)
}
if (parts.length === 0) {
return 'instantly'
} else {
return parts.join(' ')
}
}


function formatTimeHMS(o) {
let hours = o.hours.toString()
if (hours.length === 1) hours = '0' + hours


let minutes = o.minutes.toString()
if (minutes.length === 1) minutes = '0' + minutes


let seconds = o.seconds.toString()
if (seconds.length === 1) seconds = '0' + seconds


return hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds
}


function formatDurationHMS(duration) {
let time = parseDuration(duration)
return formatTimeHMS(time)
}


function formatDuration(duration, useMilli = false) {
let time = parseDuration(duration)
return formatTime(time, useMilli)
}




console.log(formatDurationHMS(57742343234))


console.log(formatDuration(57742343234))
console.log(formatDuration(5423401000))
console.log(formatDuration(500))
console.log(formatDuration(500, true))
console.log(formatDuration(1000 * 30))
console.log(formatDuration(1000 * 60 * 30))
console.log(formatDuration(1000 * 60 * 60 * 12))
console.log(formatDuration(1000 * 60 * 60 * 1))

I needed time only up to one day, 24h, this was my take:

const milliseconds = 5680000;


const hours = `0${new Date(milliseconds).getHours() - 1}`.slice(-2);
const minutes = `0${new Date(milliseconds).getMinutes()}`.slice(-2);
const seconds = `0${new Date(milliseconds).getSeconds()}`.slice(-2);


const time = `${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}`
console.log(time);

you could get days this way as well if needed.

If you're using typescript, this could be a good thing for you

enum ETime {
Seconds = 1000,
Minutes = 60000,
Hours = 3600000,
SecInMin = 60,
MinInHours = 60,
HoursMod = 24,
timeMin = 10,
}


interface ITime {
millis: number
modulo: number
}


const Times = {
seconds: {
millis: ETime.Seconds,
modulo: ETime.SecInMin,
},
minutes: {
millis: ETime.Minutes,
modulo: ETime.MinInHours,
},
hours: {
millis: ETime.Hours,
modulo: ETime.HoursMod,
},
}


const dots: string = ":"


const msToTime = (duration: number, needHours: boolean = true): string => {
const getCorrectTime = (divider: ITime): string => {
const timeStr: number = Math.floor(
(duration / divider.millis) % divider.modulo,
)


return timeStr < ETime.timeMin ? "0" + timeStr : String(timeStr)
}


return (
(needHours ? getCorrectTime(Times.hours) + dots : "") +
getCorrectTime(Times.minutes) +
dots +
getCorrectTime(Times.seconds)
)
}

In my implementation I used Moment.js:

export default (value) =>
const duration = moment.duration(value);


const milliseconds = duration.milliseconds();
const seconds = duration.seconds();
const minutes = duration.minutes();
const hours = duration.hours();
const day = duration.days();


const sDay = `${day}d `;
const sHours = (hours < 10) ? `0${hours}h ` : `${hours}h `;
const sMinutes = (minutes < 10) ? `0${minutes}' ` : `${minutes}' `;
const sSeconds = (seconds < 10) ? `0${seconds}" ` : `${seconds}" `;
const sMilliseconds = `${milliseconds}ms`;


...
}

Once got the strings, I composed them as I want.

Worked for me

msToTime(milliseconds) {
//Get hours from milliseconds
var hours = milliseconds / (1000*60*60);
var absoluteHours = Math.floor(hours);
var h = absoluteHours > 9 ? absoluteHours : '0' + absoluteHours;


//Get remainder from hours and convert to minutes
var minutes = (hours - absoluteHours) * 60;
var absoluteMinutes = Math.floor(minutes);
var m = absoluteMinutes > 9 ? absoluteMinutes : '0' +  absoluteMinutes;


//Get remainder from minutes and convert to seconds
var seconds = (minutes - absoluteMinutes) * 60;
var absoluteSeconds = Math.floor(seconds);
var s = absoluteSeconds > 9 ? absoluteSeconds : '0' + absoluteSeconds;


return h == "00" ? m + ':' + s : h + ':' + m + ':' + s;
}

Here is my solution

let h,m,s;
h = Math.floor(timeInMiliseconds/1000/60/60);
m = Math.floor((timeInMiliseconds/1000/60/60 - h)*60);
s = Math.floor(((timeInMiliseconds/1000/60/60 - h)*60 - m)*60);

// to get time format 00:00:00

s < 10 ? s = `0${s}`: s = `${s}`
m < 10 ? m = `0${m}`: m = `${m}`
h < 10 ? h = `0${h}`: h = `${h}`




console.log(`${s}:${m}:${h}`);

Sorry, late to the party. The accepted answer did not cut it for me, so I wrote it myself.

Output:

2h 59s
1h 59m
1h
1h 59s
59m 59s
59s

Code (Typescript):

function timeConversion(duration: number) {
const portions: string[] = [];


const msInHour = 1000 * 60 * 60;
const hours = Math.trunc(duration / msInHour);
if (hours > 0) {
portions.push(hours + 'h');
duration = duration - (hours * msInHour);
}


const msInMinute = 1000 * 60;
const minutes = Math.trunc(duration / msInMinute);
if (minutes > 0) {
portions.push(minutes + 'm');
duration = duration - (minutes * msInMinute);
}


const seconds = Math.trunc(duration / 1000);
if (seconds > 0) {
portions.push(seconds + 's');
}


return portions.join(' ');
}


console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 60 * 1000)              ));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000)                                 ));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000)                    + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion(                   (59 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion(                                      (59 * 1000)));

Human-readable code for human-readable output and you can extend this to light years or nanoseconds or what have you very intuitively. Obviously you'd want to convert this to a function and re-use some of those intermediate modulo calls.

second = 1000
minute = second * 60
hour = minute * 60
day = hour * 24


test = 3 * day + 2 * hour + 11 * minute + 58 * second


console.log(Math.floor(test / day))
console.log(Math.floor(test % day / hour))
console.log(Math.floor(test % day % hour / minute))
console.log(Math.floor(test % day % hour % minute / second))

I works for me as i get milliseconds=1592380675409 using javascript method getTime() which returns the number of milliseconds between midnight of January 1, 1970 and the specified date.

var d = new Date();//Wed Jun 17 2020 13:27:55 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
var n = d.getTime();//1592380675409 this value is store somewhere


//function call
console.log(convertMillisecToHrMinSec(1592380675409));


var convertMillisecToHrMinSec = (time) => {
let date = new Date(time);
let hr = date.getHours();
let min = date.getMinutes();
let sec = date.getSeconds();


hr = (hr < 10) ? "0"+ hr : hr;
min = (min < 10) ? "0"+ min : min;
sec = (sec < 10) ? "0"+ sec : sec;


return hr + ':' + min + ":" + sec;//01:27:55
}

Extending on @Rick's answer, I prefer something like this:

function msToReadableTime(time){
const second = 1000;
const minute = second * 60;
const hour = minute * 60;


let hours = Math.floor(time / hour % 24);
let minutes = Math.floor(time / minute % 60);
let seconds = Math.floor(time / second % 60);
 



return hours + ':' + minutes + ":" + seconds;
}

// The following is written in Typescript, should be easy to translate to JS

function humanReadableDuration(msDuration: int): string {
const h = Math.floor(msDuration / 1000 / 60 / 60);
const m = Math.floor((msDuration / 1000 / 60 / 60 - h) * 60);
const s = Math.floor(((msDuration / 1000 / 60 / 60 - h) * 60 - m) * 60);


// To get time format 00:00:00
const seconds: string = s < 10 ? `0${s}` : `${s}`;
const minutes: string = m < 10 ? `0${m}` : `${m}`;
const hours: string = h < 10 ? `0${h}` : `${h}`;


return `${hours}h ${minutes}m ${seconds}s`;
}

Format as hh:mm:ss with optional padding

(1:59:59 or 01:59:59)
(1:59 or 01:59)
(Default: no padding)

Based loosely on Chand's answer.

function formatMilliseconds(milliseconds, padStart) {
function pad(num) {
return `${num}`.padStart(2, '0');
}
let asSeconds = milliseconds / 1000;


let hours = undefined;
let minutes = Math.floor(asSeconds / 60);
let seconds = Math.floor(asSeconds % 60);


if (minutes > 59) {
hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
minutes %= 60;
}


return hours
? `${padStart ? pad(hours) : hours}:${pad(minutes)}:${pad(seconds)}`
: `${padStart ? pad(minutes) : minutes}:${pad(seconds)}`;
}

Tests:

let s = 1000;
let m = 60*s;
let h = 60*m;
console.log(formatMilliseconds(1*h));               // 1:00:00
console.log(formatMilliseconds(1*h, true));         // 01:00:00
console.log(formatMilliseconds(59*m + 59*s));       // 59:59
console.log(formatMilliseconds(59*m + 59*s, true)); // 59:59
console.log(formatMilliseconds(9*m + 9*s));         // 9:09
console.log(formatMilliseconds(9*m + 9*s, true));   // 09:09
console.log(formatMilliseconds(5*s));               // 0:05
console.log(formatMilliseconds(5*s, true));         // 00:05
console.log(formatMilliseconds(2400*s));            // 40:00
console.log(formatMilliseconds(2400*s, true));      // 40:00

.
.
.
If you need millisecond precision, you can get the fractional part using the following:

(asSeconds % 1).toFixed(3).substring(1)

Your returns would end up looking like this (break it up for readability as necessary):

`${padStart ? pad(hours) : hours}:${pad(minutes)}:${pad(seconds)}${(asSeconds % 1).toFixed(3).substring(1)}`

There are probably better ways to do that, but this naive solution gets the job done.

Test:

let asSeconds = 59.5219;
let seconds = Math.floor(asSeconds);
console.log(`${pad(seconds)}${(asSeconds % 1).toFixed(3).substring(1)}`);
// Equivalent to above, without using `pad()`:
//console.log(`${String(seconds).padStart(2, '0')}${(asSeconds % 1).toFixed(3).substring(1)}`);


// Output: 59.522

I recently ran into this situation. My focus was on clean readability and reusability.

Use

(See function definition below)

timeUnits(86400000) // {days: 1, hours: 0, minutes: 0, seconds: 0, ms: 0}

Then you can use the data to do whatever you want (like build a string).

Other examples:

timeUnits(214870123) // {days: 2, hours: 11, minutes: 41, seconds: 10, ms: 123}

timeUnits('70123') // null

Function

/**
* Converts milliseconds into greater time units as possible
* @param {int} ms - Amount of time measured in milliseconds
* @return {?Object} Reallocated time units. NULL on failure.
*/
function timeUnits( ms ) {
if ( !Number.isInteger(ms) ) {
return null
}
/**
* Takes as many whole units from the time pool (ms) as possible
* @param {int} msUnit - Size of a single unit in milliseconds
* @return {int} Number of units taken from the time pool
*/
const allocate = msUnit => {
const units = Math.trunc(ms / msUnit)
ms -= units * msUnit
return units
}
// Property order is important here.
// These arguments are the respective units in ms.
return {
// weeks: allocate(604800000), // Uncomment for weeks
days: allocate(86400000),
hours: allocate(3600000),
minutes: allocate(60000),
seconds: allocate(1000),
ms: ms // remainder
}
}

It's written in such a way so that you can easily implement other units (for example, where I commented out implementation for weeks) so long as you know their worth in milliseconds.

A refactor from @dusht to ES6+ and more functional:

const addPrefix = time => time < 10 ? '0' + time : time;
const toHours = time => addPrefix(Math.floor((time / (1000 * 60 * 60)) % 24));
const toMinutes = time => addPrefix(Math.floor((time / (1000 * 60)) % 60));
const toSeconds = (ime => addPrefix(Math.floor((time / 1000) % 60));
const toMiliseconds = time => Math.floor((time % 1000) / 100);




const milisecondToHoursAndMinute = time => {
const hours = toHours(time);
const minutes = toMinutes(time);
const seconds = toSeconds(time);
const miliseconds = toMiliseconds(time);


return `${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}.${miliseconds}`
}

A Date object can be constructed from milliseconds:

const date = new Date(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, milliseconds);

In your question you say milliseconds seconds should 'wrap around' at 86400000. Since we know there are 86400000 milliseconds in a day, we can simply take the time from the date object, and ignore every other part of the date as irrelevant.

The time can then be obtained in any number of formats. The one you require matches that used in the United Kingdom, locale en-GB:

const hms = d.toLocaleTimeString('en-GB');

let dateTimeStr = new Date(1949778000);
dateTimeStr = Math.floor(dateTimeStr/86400000) +' days '+ dateTimeStr.getHours() +' hours '+ dateTimeStr.getMinutes() +' minutes '+ dateTimeStr.getSeconds() +' seconds';
console.log(dateTimeStr);

You don't have to calculate the days if you don't need them

"22 days 16 hours 36 minutes 18 seconds"

I don't see the need for complication in all these answers, it's easy to add zeros by adding a power of 10:

function timeToString(t) {
const value =
((t / 3600_000 % 24) | 0) * 10000 +
((t / 60_000 % 60) | 0) * 100 +
((t / 1_000 % 60) | 0);
return (1000000 + value).toString().replace(/1(..)(..)(..)/, '$1:$2:$3');
}

If anyone still need here's a modified version of one of the code snippets posted above in js by https://stackoverflow.com/a/58826445/20067539

function timeConversion(duration) {
var portions = [];
var msInDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
var days = Math.trunc(duration / msInDay);
if (days > 0 ) {
portions.push(days + (days === 1 ? " day" : " days"))
duration = duration - (days * msInDay)
}
var msInHour = 1000 * 60 * 60;
var hours = Math.trunc(duration / msInHour);
if (hours > 0) {
portions.push(hours + (hours === 1 ? ' hour' : ' hours'));
duration = duration - (hours * msInHour);
}
var msInMinute = 1000 * 60;
var minutes = Math.trunc(duration / msInMinute);
if (minutes > 0) {
portions.push(minutes + (minutes === 1 ? ' minute' : ' minutes'));
duration = duration - (minutes * msInMinute);
}
var seconds = Math.trunc(duration / 1000);
if (seconds > 0) {
portions.push(seconds + (seconds === 1 ? ' second' : ' seconds'));
}
return portions.join(' ');
}
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((60 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((59 * 60 * 1000) + (59 * 1000)));
console.log(timeConversion((59 * 1000)));