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System.out.println( PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(Period.hours(1).plusMinutes(30).plusSeconds(60)));

The output from the above Joda PeriodFormatter is "1 hour, 30 minutes and 60 seconds".

I know that this is a fringe case, but is there a way to output this as "1 hour and 31 minutes"?

Thanks!

GWTNewbie
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You could normalize it first with normalizedStandard:

Period period = Period.hours(1).plusMinutes(30).plusSeconds(60);
PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(period.normalizedStandard());

Or possibly:

Period period = Period.hours(1).plusMinutes(30).plusSeconds(60);
PeriodFormat.getDefault()
            .print(period.normalizedStandard(period.getPeriodType()));
Jon Skeet
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Try adding toStandardDuration(): 

System.out.println( PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(Period.hours(1).plusMinutes(30).plusSeconds(60).toStandardDuration()));
Thomas
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  • javadoc for toStandardDuration() says "If the period contains years or months, an exception will be thrown.", so I'm accepting Jon Skeet's answer. Thanks! – GWTNewbie Sep 21 '11 at 12:49