<?php
$time=3*3600 + 30*60;


$year=floor($time/(365*24*60*60));
$time-=$year*(365*24*60*60);

$month=floor($time/(30*24*60*60));
$time-=$month*(30*24*60*60);

$day=floor($time/(24*60*60));
$time-=$day*(24*60*60);

$hour=floor($time/(60*60));
$time-=$hour*(60*60);

$minute=floor($time/(60));
$time-=$minute*(60);

$second=floor($time);
$time-=$second;
if($year>0){
    echo $year." year, ";
}
if($month>0){
    echo $month." month, ";
}
if($day>0){
    echo $day." day, ";
}
if($hour>0){
    echo $hour." hour, ";
}
if($minute>0){
    echo $minute." minute, ";
}
if($second>0){
    echo $second." second, ";
}

以防其他人正在寻找一个简单的函数来返回格式化良好的格式(我知道这不是OP要求的格式)，这就是我刚刚想到的。感谢@mughal的代码，这是基于。

function format_timer_result($time_in_seconds){
    $time_in_seconds = ceil($time_in_seconds);

    // Check for 0
    if ($time_in_seconds == 0){
        return 'Less than a second';
    }

    // Days
    $days = floor($time_in_seconds / (60 * 60 * 24));
    $time_in_seconds -= $days * (60 * 60 * 24);

    // Hours
    $hours = floor($time_in_seconds / (60 * 60));
    $time_in_seconds -= $hours * (60 * 60);

    // Minutes
    $minutes = floor($time_in_seconds / 60);
    $time_in_seconds -= $minutes * 60;

    // Seconds
    $seconds = floor($time_in_seconds);

    // Format for return
    $return = '';
    if ($days > 0){
        $return .= $days . ' day' . ($days == 1 ? '' : 's'). ' ';
    }
    if ($hours > 0){
        $return .= $hours . ' hour' . ($hours == 1 ? '' : 's') . ' ';
    }
    if ($minutes > 0){
        $return .= $minutes . ' minute' . ($minutes == 1 ? '' : 's') . ' ';
    }
    if ($seconds > 0){
        $return .= $seconds . ' second' . ($seconds == 1 ? '' : 's') . ' ';
    }
    $return = trim($return);

    return $return;
}

这个函数是有用的，你可以扩展它:

function formatSeconds($seconds) {

if(!is_integer($seconds)) {
    return FALSE;
}

$fmt = "";

$days = floor($seconds / 86400);
if($days) {
    $fmt .= $days."D ";
    $seconds %= 86400;
}

$hours = floor($seconds / 3600);
if($hours) {
    $fmt .= str_pad($hours, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT).":";
    $seconds %= 3600;
}

$mins = floor($seconds / 60 );
if($mins) {
    $fmt .= str_pad($mins, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT).":";
    $seconds %= 60;
}

$fmt .= str_pad($seconds, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);

return $fmt;}

试试这个:

date("H:i:s",-57600 + 685);

从 http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/3917-seconds-converted-hh-mm-ss

写这样的函数返回一个数组

function secondsToTime($seconds) {

  // extract hours
  $hours = floor($seconds / (60 * 60));

  // extract minutes
  $divisor_for_minutes = $seconds % (60 * 60);
  $minutes = floor($divisor_for_minutes / 60);

  // extract the remaining seconds
  $divisor_for_seconds = $divisor_for_minutes % 60;
  $seconds = ceil($divisor_for_seconds);

  // return the final array
  $obj = array(
      "h" => (int) $hours,
      "m" => (int) $minutes,
      "s" => (int) $seconds,
   );

  return $obj;
}

然后像这样简单地调用函数:

secondsToTime(100);

输出是

Array ( [h] => 0 [m] => 1 [s] => 40 )

下面是一个处理负秒和超过1天的秒的一行程序。

sprintf("%s:%'02s:%'02s\n", intval($seconds/60/60), abs(intval(($seconds%3600) / 60)), abs($seconds%60));

例如:

$seconds= -24*60*60 - 2*60*60 - 3*60 - 4; // minus 1 day 2 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds
echo sprintf("%s:%'02s:%'02s\n", intval($seconds/60/60), abs(intval(($seconds%3600) / 60)), abs($seconds%60));

输出:26:03:04