how to convert a certain number to hours/minutes?

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Hello everyone well i have a certain long number and i wish to divide it and show how many minutes and hours remaining :

timeToReceive = Utils.currentTimeMillis() + (60 * 1000 * 60 * 8); // 8 hours

here is my timeToReceive long.

I want to show how much time is remaining for the timeToReceive(it's set for 8 hours in the future).

So i do this :

(timeToReceive - Utils.currentTimeMillis()) / (1000 * 60)

this displays it in minutes, however i want to display it in hours and minutes, how will i go bout doing that?

thanks.

This question appears to be off-topic because it is about lack of understanding of basic arithmetic. — devnull, Apr 25 '14 at 10:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 10:27

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timeInMinutes = (timeToReceive - Utils.currentTimeMillis()) / (1000 * 60);

hours = timeInMinutes / 60;
minutes=timeInMinutes % 60;

This works fine

answered Apr 25 '14 at 10:27

Sunny

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 10:30

First count the time in minutes

minutes = (timeToReceive - Utils.currentTimeMillis()) / (1000 * 60)

Then use / operation and % operation

minutes / 60; // will just divide and truncate - gives you hours
minutes % 60; // will give you the rest that is left after dividing - the part that was truncated when you used / operator

how to convert a certain number to hours/minutes?

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