在java8中还有另一种方法。但如果持续时间不超过24小时，则有效

public String formatDuration(Duration duration) {
    DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("h:mm.SSS");
    return LocalTime.ofNanoOfDay(duration.toNanos()).format(formatter);
}

我使用Apache common的DurationFormatUtils，就像这样:

DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(millis, "**H:mm:ss**", true);

在Scala中，构建YourBestBet的解决方案，但简化了:

def prettyDuration(seconds: Long): List[String] = seconds match {
  case t if t < 60      => List(s"${t} seconds")
  case t if t < 3600    => s"${t / 60} minutes" :: prettyDuration(t % 60)
  case t if t < 3600*24 => s"${t / 3600} hours" :: prettyDuration(t % 3600)
  case t                => s"${t / (3600*24)} days" :: prettyDuration(t % (3600*24))
}

val dur = prettyDuration(12345).mkString(", ") // => 3 hours, 25 minutes, 45 seconds

我的库Time4J提供了一个基于模式的解决方案(类似于Apache DurationFormatUtils，但更灵活):

Duration<ClockUnit> duration =
    Duration.of(-573421, ClockUnit.SECONDS) // input in seconds only
    .with(Duration.STD_CLOCK_PERIOD); // performs normalization to h:mm:ss-structure
String fs = Duration.formatter(ClockUnit.class, "+##h:mm:ss").format(duration);
System.out.println(fs); // output => -159:17:01

这段代码演示了处理小时溢出和符号处理的功能，请参见基于模式的持续时间格式化程序的API。

这个答案只使用Duration方法，适用于Java 8:

public static String format(Duration d) {
    long days = d.toDays();
    d = d.minusDays(days);
    long hours = d.toHours();
    d = d.minusHours(hours);
    long minutes = d.toMinutes();
    d = d.minusMinutes(minutes);
    long seconds = d.getSeconds() ;
    return 
            (days ==  0?"":days+" days,")+ 
            (hours == 0?"":hours+" hours,")+ 
            (minutes ==  0?"":minutes+" minutes,")+ 
            (seconds == 0?"":seconds+" seconds,");
}

使用这个func

private static String strDuration(long duration) {
    int ms, s, m, h, d;
    double dec;
    double time = duration * 1.0;

    time = (time / 1000.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    ms = (int)(dec * 1000);

    time = (time / 60.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    s = (int)(dec * 60);

    time = (time / 60.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    m = (int)(dec * 60);

    time = (time / 24.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    h = (int)(dec * 24);
    
    d = (int)time;
    
    return (String.format("%d d - %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d", d, h, m, s, ms));
}