How do you elegantly format a timespan to say example "1 hour 10 minutes" when you have declared it as :
TimeSpan t = new TimeSpan(0, 70, 0);
?
I am of course aware that you could do some simple maths for this, but I was kinda hoping that there is something in .NET to handle this for me - for more complicated scenarios
Duplicate of How can I String.Format a TimeSpan object with a custom format in .NET?
public static string GetDurationInWords( TimeSpan aTimeSpan )
{
string timeTaken = string.Empty;
if( aTimeSpan.Days > 0 )
timeTaken += aTimeSpan.Days + " day" + ( aTimeSpan.Days > 1 ? "s" : "" );
if( aTimeSpan.Hours > 0 )
{
if( !string.IsNullOrEmpty( timeTaken ) )
timeTaken += " ";
timeTaken += aTimeSpan.Hours + " hour" + ( aTimeSpan.Hours > 1 ? "s" : "" );
}
if( aTimeSpan.Minutes > 0 )
{
if( !string.IsNullOrEmpty( timeTaken ) )
timeTaken += " ";
timeTaken += aTimeSpan.Minutes + " minute" + ( aTimeSpan.Minutes > 1 ? "s" : "" );
}
if( aTimeSpan.Seconds > 0 )
{
if( !string.IsNullOrEmpty( timeTaken ) )
timeTaken += " ";
timeTaken += aTimeSpan.Seconds + " second" + ( aTimeSpan.Seconds > 1 ? "s" : "" );
}
if( string.IsNullOrEmpty( timeTaken ) )
timeTaken = "0 seconds.";
return timeTaken;
}