Given the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight, compute the time in hours, minutes and seconds.
Here's a quick method:
<? // a random number of seconds $seconds = mt_rand(1, 86400); // output the hours, minutes and seconds that have elapsed echo 'For ' . $seconds . ':<br/>' . intval($seconds / 3600) . ' hour(s), ' . intval(($seconds % 3600) / 60) . ' minute(s) and ' . $seconds % 60 . ' second(s)<br/>';?>Which produces:
For 35784:
9 hour(s), 56 minute(s) and 24 second(s)
A method using date functions:
<? // store the number of seconds per day define(SECONDS_PER_DAY, 86400); // a random number of seconds $seconds = mt_rand(1, SECONDS_PER_DAY); // get the time at the start of today // and then add on the seconds $elapsed = strtotime('00:00') + $seconds; // output the hours, minutes and seconds that have elapsed // intval is used to remove leading zero's echo 'For ' . $seconds . ':<br/>' // total seconds . date(G, $elapsed) . ' hour(s), ' // hours . intval(date(i, $elapsed)) . ' minute(s) and ' // minutes . intval(date(s, $elapsed)) . ' second(s)'; // seconds?>Which produces:
For 6231:
1 hour(s), 43 minute(s) and 51 second(s)