Convert hours to nY nM nD?

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Hello,
I’m trying to achieve same results as from simple php function which converts hours into readable format of years/months/days

$hours = 22236;
$days = round($hours / 24);
$end_date = new DateTime(date("Y/m/d",strtotime("+$days days")));
$start_date = new DateTime(date("Y/m/d"));
$dd = date_diff($start_date,$end_date);
echo $dd->y."y ".$dd->m."m ".$dd->d."d";

which will print
2y 6m 12d

I’m not yet deeply familiar with simpledateformat so I need bit of help if that can be done by that function or somehow differently.

Thanks for hints!

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If you are looking at simpledateformat you are looking in the wrong place. A DateTime represents an instant in time, not a duration.

There is no built in function to format a duration. You need to write a rule or JavaScript transform to convert a Number of minutes or seconds to the String format you are after.

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well it basically works with dates as it counts today + n and then differs (which i can handle) What I’m really looking for is how to convert hours into

today + hours = datetime (eq. equivalent of strtotime)
and then I’ll move on with a rule

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now.plusHours(hours)

5

thanks! :+1: