Question

I have the time stored as a fraction (done so it can be displayed on a graph), e.g. 15.5 is 3.30pm and 23.25 is 11.15pm. I need to turn those numbers into strings in the format HH:MM:SS. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Answer 1

Something like this ?

var fraction = 14.5;
var hours = Math.floor(fraction); // extract the hours (in 24 hour format)
var mins = 60 * (fraction - hours); // calculate the minutes
t = new Date(); // create a date/time object

t.setHours(hours); // set the hours
t.setMinutes(mins); // set the mins
console.log(t.toTimeString()); //show it

or completely manual

var fraction = 14.5;
var hours = Math.floor(fraction);
var mins = 60 * (fraction - hours);
var ampm = ((fraction % 24) < 12) ? 'am' : 'pm';

formatted = ('0' + hours % 12).substr(-2) + ':' + ('0' + mins).substr(-2) + ':00 ' + ampm;
console.log(formatted);

Update

And a version with seconds as well..

var fraction = 14.33;
var hours = Math.floor(fraction);
var allseconds = 3600 * (fraction - hours);
var minutes = Math.floor(allseconds / 60);
var seconds = Math.floor(allseconds % 60);
var ampm = ((fraction % 24) < 12) ? 'am' : 'pm';

formatted = ('0' + hours % 12).substr(-2) + ':' + ('0' + minutes).substr(-2) + ':' + ('0' + seconds).substr(-2) + ' ' + ampm;
console.log(formatted);