Add option to show playtime in hours instead of days (or even custom format)

[victorleblais]

Role

I really like being able to see my playtime of each instance (and the total playtime), however I don't like seeing the playtime in terms of days

Suggestion

I would like to have the option (since I understand that people prefer the current setting) to show the playtime purely in hours instead of days.

Benefit

So that I can more easily understand/gauge the playtime and compare.

This suggestion is unique

• I have searched the issue tracker and did not find an issue describing my suggestion, especially not one that has been rejected.

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To further expand, here is an example. Let's say my playtime on an instance is totalTimePlayed=275193 (from instance.cfg, time is stored in seconds).

Current UI shows my total play time as "3d 4h 26m" (sidenote, the units are incorrect, see #553).

I suggest that we could show the playtime as "76h 26min" which is a common way of showing playtime in most game launchers.

This setting would be located in Settings > Launcher > User Interface.

Ideally, there could be a third option to add a text input where the user can input a formatting string to customize the display however they want. Here's a suggestion of what codes could be available and what they would do:

• Days:
  • %d%: full amount of days (rounded down). Example: "3"
  • %dd%: full amount of days, with 1 digit of precision. Example: "3.2"
  • %ddd%: full amount of days, with 2 digit of precision. Example: "3.18"
• Hours:
  • %h%: amount of hours (full days deducted) (rounded down). Example: "4"
  • %hh%: amount of hours (full days deducted), with 1 digit of precision. Example: "4.4"
  • %hhh%: amount of hours (full days deducted), with 2 digit of precision. Example: "4.43"
  • %fh%: full amount of hours (rounded down). Example: "76"
  • %fhh%: full amount of hours, with 1 digit of precision. Example: "76.4"
  • %fhhh%: full amount of hours, with 2 digit of precision. Example: "76.43"
• Minutes:
  • %m%: amount of minutes (full days and full hours deducted) Example: "26"
  • %fm%: full amount of minutes. Example: "4586"

And here's a bunch of examples for a playtime of 275193s:

Time string	Output	Notes
"%d%d %h%h %m%min"	3d 4h 26min	Current format
"%fh%h %m%min"	76h 26min	Suggested alternative format
"%fhh% hours"	76.4 hours
"%d% days and %h% hours"	3 days and 4 hours
"%fm% minutes"	4,586 minutes
"%d% days %h% hours (%fhhh%h)"	3 days 4 hours (76.43h)

From what I can see, this formatting is handled by MMCTime.cpp

Note: The closest issue I could find is #216 but I don't think this covers the same topic.