I wanted to check if momentjs is able to convert a given number of seconds to a ISO 8601 formatted duration string.

E.g. 1000 seconds will lead to PT16M40S.

I wanted to check if momentjs is able to convert a given number of seconds to a ISO 8601 formatted duration string.

E.g. 1000 seconds will lead to PT16M40S.

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• momentjs

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• npmjs./package/moment-duration – Dan Wilson Commented Nov 14, 2016 at 14:52
• using a library to replace one line of code is kind of crazy. – Paul Rooney Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 4:21

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You can use toISOString on the duration:

moment.duration(1000, 'seconds').toISOString() //"PT16M40S"