Question

Is there a CPAN module that can convert a number of seconds to a human-readable English description of the interval?

secToEng( 125 ); # => 2 min 5 sec
secToEng( 129_600 ); # => 1 day 12 h

The format isn’t important as long as it’s human-readable.

I know that it would be trivial to implement.

Answer 1

Since Perl v5.9.5, the modules Time::Seconds and Time::Piece are part of the core Perl distribution. So you can use them without installing additional modules.

perl -MTime::Seconds -e 'my $s=125; my $ts=new Time::Seconds $s; print $ts->pretty, "\n"'
# 2 minutes, 5 seconds

perl -MTime::Seconds -e 'my $s=129_600; my $ts=Time::Seconds->new($s); print $ts->pretty, "\n"'
# 1 days, 12 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds

You can also use stuff like $ts->weeks, $ts->minutes, etc.