Convert GlideDateTime to Days:Hours:Minutes?

[jcote]

Since we are unable to have a Service Catalog Variable type as a "Duration" , like we are with field values - I need to convert a duration value to a more readable format.

I have calculated the duration between two GlideDateTime values and have a value of this: "23:24:41";

How do I convert this new value ('23:24:41') to something that would read 23 hours, 24 minutes and 41 seconds?

I could rip it apart with some JavaScript and play around with it that way, but I was wondering if there's a more elegant solution.

Thanks.

[ramireddy]

Yes, There is existing method. Here is an example, which calculates span,duration and displaying in the descriptive format as you wanted. You can convert below method as you want.

var gdt = new GlideDateTime("2011-08-31 08:00:00"); //Wednesday

var dur = new GlideDuration();

var span = gdt.getSpanTime(3); //how much time since Monday 00:00:00

dur.setValue(span);

gs.addInfoMessage(dur.getDisplayValue());

GlideDateTime - ServiceNow Wiki

[Abhinay Erra · Accepted solution]

Jamison,

  Here is the easiest way to do this.   Just put in your value in to the GlideDuartion as shown below and use getDisplayValue()

var duration = new GlideDuration('23:24:41');

duration.getDisplayValue(); //this will give you the required format

You can convert it to Days Hours Minutes by using duration.getDisplayValue()

[jcote]

Thanks abhi_r and ramireddy,

I ended up using this the subtract() method here for the solution:

       var start = new GlideDateTime(current.opened_at);
       var end = new GlideDateTime(current.u_resolved_at);
       var xx = GlideDateTime.subtract(start, end);
       gs.log(xx.getDisplayValue(), "JC");

And the output is as expected: 23 Hours 24 Minutes

Thanks.