我不会为此引入额外的依赖项(毕竟，除法并不那么难)，但如果您无论如何都在使用Commons Lang，还有DurationFormatUtils。

用法示例(从这里改编):

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DurationFormatUtils

public String getAge(long value) {
    long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    long age = currentTime - value;
    String ageString = DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(age, "d") + "d";
    if ("0d".equals(ageString)) {
        ageString = DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(age, "H") + "h";
        if ("0h".equals(ageString)) {
            ageString = DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(age, "m") + "m";
            if ("0m".equals(ageString)) {
                ageString = DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(age, "s") + "s";
                if ("0s".equals(ageString)) {
                    ageString = age + "ms";
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return ageString;
}   

例子:

long lastTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - 2000;
System.out.println("Elapsed time: " + getAge(lastTime)); 

//Output: 2s

注意:从两个LocalDateTime对象中获取millis可以使用:

long age = ChronoUnit.MILLIS.between(initTime, LocalDateTime.now())

使用java . util . concurrent。TimeUnit，使用这个简单的方法:

private static long timeDiff(Date date, Date date2, TimeUnit unit) {
    long milliDiff=date2.getTime()-date.getTime();
    long unitDiff = unit.convert(milliDiff, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    return unitDiff; 
}

例如:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");  
Date firstDate = sdf.parse("06/24/2017 04:30:00");
Date secondDate = sdf.parse("07/24/2017 05:00:15");
Date thirdDate = sdf.parse("06/24/2017 06:00:15");

System.out.println("days difference: "+timeDiff(firstDate,secondDate,TimeUnit.DAYS));
System.out.println("hours difference: "+timeDiff(firstDate,thirdDate,TimeUnit.HOURS));
System.out.println("minutes difference: "+timeDiff(firstDate,thirdDate,TimeUnit.MINUTES));
System.out.println("seconds difference: "+timeDiff(firstDate,thirdDate,TimeUnit.SECONDS));

如果你知道时间差将小于一个小时，那么你可以使用以下代码:

    Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar c2 = Calendar.getInstance();

    c2.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 51);

    long diff = c2.getTimeInMillis() - c1.getTimeInMillis();

    c2.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
    c2.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);
    c2.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);

    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("mm:ss");
    long diff1 = c2.getTimeInMillis() + diff;
    System.out.println(df.format(new Date(diff1)));

结果是:51:00

我修改了@MyKuLLSKI的回答，增加了多元化支持。我去掉了几秒，因为我不需要它们，如果你需要的话，可以重新添加。

public static String intervalToHumanReadableTime(int intervalMins) {

    if(intervalMins <= 0) {
        return "0";
    } else {

        long intervalMs = intervalMins * 60 * 1000;

        long days = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(intervalMs);
        intervalMs -= TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(days);
        long hours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(intervalMs);
        intervalMs -= TimeUnit.HOURS.toMillis(hours);
        long minutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(intervalMs);

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(12);

        if (days >= 1) {
            sb.append(days).append(" day").append(pluralize(days)).append(", ");
        }

        if (hours >= 1) {
            sb.append(hours).append(" hour").append(pluralize(hours)).append(", ");
        }

        if (minutes >= 1) {
            sb.append(minutes).append(" minute").append(pluralize(minutes));
        } else {
            sb.delete(sb.length()-2, sb.length()-1);
        }

        return(sb.toString());          

    }

}

public static String pluralize(long val) {
    return (Math.round(val) > 1 ? "s" : "");
}

乔达时间

使用Joda-Time:

DateTime startTime = new DateTime();

// do something

DateTime endTime = new DateTime();
Duration duration = new Duration(startTime, endTime);
Period period = duration.toPeriod().normalizedStandard(PeriodType.time());
System.out.println(PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(period));

DurationFormatUtils.formatDurationHMS(长)