Request a better way to limit milli second digits

Question

I was attempting to limit the number of milliseconds displayed in an Android UI, and I came up with this:

Long milli = TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toSeconds(nanos);
String partB = milli.toString().substring(0,2);
String partA = String.format("%d:%d:%d.",     
    TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toHours(nanos),
    TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMinutes(nanos),    
    TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toSeconds(nanos));
return partA + partB;

I tried setting the String.format to "%d:%d:%d.%02d", but I still got the full 5 digit value returned for milliseconds.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '16 at 18:26

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Try this one.

milli.substring(0, Math.min(milli.length(), 2));

answered May 03 '16 at 18:26

Alex Chengalan

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '16 at 12:48

This is the code I'm using in production

public static String returnFormattedDuration(long nanos){
    Long days= TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toDays(nanos);
    nanos -= TimeUnit.DAYS.toNanos(days);
    Long hours=TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toHours(nanos);
    nanos -= TimeUnit.HOURS.toNanos(hours);
    Long minutes=TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMinutes(nanos);
    nanos -= TimeUnit.MINUTES.toNanos(minutes);
    Long seconds= TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toSeconds(nanos);
    nanos -= TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(seconds);
    Long millisec = TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMillis(nanos);
    return days.toString()+":"+hours.toString()+":"+minutes.toString()+":"+seconds.toString()+"."+millisec.toString();
}

and it is working well

Request a better way to limit milli second digits

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