Duration channel formatting in GUI

[rossko57]

Clock time is not duration. Foi example, the first day of the year is “1”, when duration of the year is still “0” days + x hours etc.

@lsiepel

I want to show it as 1 day, 11 hours 39 minute

There are a number of transformations in this forum - my own example

Number:Time formatting for display

A Number:Time type Item shares the characteristic of other Quantity Types in that it’s state is represented by a single number + unit, as a pair. openHAB can freely work with a variety of units, and convert values like say “90 s” to “1.5 min”, but neither of these are particularly human-friendly - we tend to think in clock-like terms, more like “1 min 30 secs”. There is no standard feature to perform this kind of formatting. However, transformations are very versatile and meant for tasks like…