How old is it roughly?

Write a short program which takes in a positive number of seconds representing an age, and outputs an estimate of that time in English.

Your program must output the least precise amount of time which has passed, among the following metrics and their lengths in seconds:

second = 1
minute = 60
hour   = 60 * 60
day    = 60 * 60 * 24
week   = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7
month  = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31
year   = 60 * 60 * 24 * 365


Examples

input      : output
1          : 1 second
59         : 59 seconds
60         : 1 minute
119        : 1 minute
120        : 2 minutes
43200      : 12 hours
86401      : 1 day
1815603    : 3 weeks
1426636800 : 45 years


As you can see above, after the time of say, 1 day (60 * 60 * 24 = 86400 seconds), we no longer output minute(s) or hour(s), but only days until we surpass the time of one week, and so on.

Consider the given length of time to be an age. For example, after 119 seconds, 1 minute has passed, not 2.

Rules

• No specification for 0 or negative inputs.
• Follow proper pluralization. Every measure greater than 1 must include an s following the word.
• You may not use a pre-existing library which serves the function of the entire program.
• This is a code golf, shortest program wins the internet points.
• Have fun!
• I don't understand how we choose a unit or amount. Do we round? – xnor Mar 18 '18 at 2:35
• @xnor we integer divide and use the smallest non-zero value along with its unit (possibly pluralised). Hence 59 -> "59 seconds" and 86401 -> "1 day". – Jonathan Allan Mar 18 '18 at 3:21
• Welcome to PPCG! Nice first challenge. For future reference there is a sandbox which is useful for getting feedback before posting to main. – Jonathan Allan Mar 18 '18 at 3:24
• Note that Do X without Y is discouraged, as well as Non-observable program requirement. – user202729 Mar 18 '18 at 14:02
• How should we round the numbers? Should 119 seconds be 1 minute or 2 minutes? What about 90? – user202729 Mar 18 '18 at 14:19

Jelly, 62 bytes

TṀị
“¢<<ð¢‘×\×€0¦7,31,365F⁸:µç“ɲþḣ⁹ḢṡṾDU¤µQƝṁ⁼ẹ»Ḳ¤ṭÇK;⁸Ç>1¤¡”s


A full program printing the result.
(As a monadic link it returns a list of an integer followed by characters)

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How?

TṀị - Link 1: list of integers, K; list, V  e.g. [86401,1440,24,1,0,0,0], ["second","minute","hour","day","week","month","year"]
T   - truthy indexes of K                        [1,2,3,4]
Ṁ  - maximum                                    4
ị - index into V                               "day"

“¢<<ð¢‘×\×€0¦7,31,365F⁸:µç“...»Ḳ¤ṭÇK;⁸Ç>1¤¡”s - Main link: integer, N  e.g. 3599
“¢<<ð¢‘                                       - list of code-page indices = [1,60,60,24,1]
\                                     - cumulative reduce with:
×                                      -  multiplication = [1,60,3600,86400,86400]
7,31,365                         - list of integers = [7,31,365]
¦                                 - sparse application...
0                                  - ...to index: 0 (rightmost)
×€                                   - ...of: multiplication for €ach = [1,60,3600,86400,[604800,2678400,31536000]]
F                        - flatten = [1,60,3600,86400,604800,2678400,31536000]
⁸                       - chain's left argument, N    3599
:                      - integer divide         [3599,59,0,0,0,0,0]
µ                     - start a new monadic chain, call that X
“...»               -   compression of "second minute hour day week month year"
Ḳ              -   split at spaces = ["second","minute","hour","day","week","month","year"]
ç                    - call the last link (1) as a dyad - i.e. f(X,["second","minute","hour","day","week","month","year"])
-                             "minute"
Ç           - call the last link (1) as a monad - i.e. f(X,X)
-                             59
ṭ            - tack                        [59,['m','i','n','u','t','e']]
K          - join with spaces            [59,' ','m','i','n','u','t','e']
”s - literal character '
¡   - repeat...
¤    - ...number of times: nilad followed by link(s) as a nilad:
⁸        -   chain's left argument, X  [3599,59,0,0,0,0,0]
Ç       -   call the last link (1) as a monad - i.e. f(X,X)
-                             59
>1     -   greater than 1?           1
;         - concatenate                 [59,' ','m','i','n','u','t','e','s']
- implicit print - smashes to print  "59 minutes"


C, 194180144 128 characters

Thanks to @gastropher for the code reductions. I forgot that C allows for implicit parameters using K&R-style functions! Also thanks to @gmatht for the idea of putting literals inside instead of arrays. I extended that to the characters by abusing taking advantage of wide character/char16_t strings! The compiler doesn't seem to like \1 in its ☺ form though.

f(t,c,d){for(c=7;!(d=t/L"\1<ฐ\1•▼ŭ"[--c]/(c>2?86400:1)););printf("%d %.6s%s\n",d,c*6+(char*)u"敳潣摮業畮整潨牵 慤y†敷步 潭瑮h敹牡",(d<2)+"s");}


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Original solution

I split up the arrays into separate lines to make it easier to see the rest of the solution.

char *n[]={"second","minute","hour","day","week","month","year"};
int o[]={1,60,3600,86400,604800,2678400,31536000};
f(int t){int c=7,d;while(!(d=t/o[--c]));printf("%d %s%s\n",d,n[c],d>1?"s":"");}


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Running the divisors in order from largest to smallest, we get the coarsest unit of time. The program misbehaves if you give it 0 seconds, but as the specification explicitly excludes this value, I deem that to be acceptable.

• Some tricks can be used to get it down to 183 bytes: Try it online! – gastropner Mar 18 '18 at 6:46
• Sorry, that one introduced a bug. Proper one at 180 bytes: Try it online! – gastropner Mar 18 '18 at 6:53
• @gastropner I think the last one has a bug too. '(d<1)' should be '(d<2)'... or '(d<=1)', but lets not go crazy. – gmatht Mar 18 '18 at 18:05
• @gmatht You are quite right! – gastropner Mar 18 '18 at 18:11
• OK, last one, I promise. 164 bytes. – gastropner Mar 18 '18 at 18:32

Perl 5, 110 bytes

year31536000month2678400week604800day86400hour3600minute60second1=~s:\D+:say"$%$&",$_=$%>1&&"s"if$%=$_/$':reg  Try it online! Stax, 54 bytes ▀♂♂┼╕Qá◙à*ä∙Φò►⌠╨Ns↔║►πîÇ∙cI≡ªb?δ♪9gΓ╕┬≥‼⌡Öå01:♪EoE╘≡ë  Run and debug it Here's the unpacked, ungolfed, ascii representation of the same program.  stack starts with total seconds c60/ push total minutes to stack c60/ ... hours c24/ ... days Yc7/ ... weeks y31/ ... months y365/ ... years L make a list out of all the calculated time units )sQP(dr'pk,oV4?_HIFD?xj compressed literal for singular forms of unit names \ zip totals with names rF foreach pair of total and name (in reverse orer) h!C skip if the current total is falsey (0) _J join the total and unit name with a space 's_1=T+ concat 's' unless the total is one  Following execution, since there's no other output, the top of the stack is printed implicitly. Run this one JavaScript (ES6), 131 bytes n=>[60,60,24,7,31/7,365/31,0].map((v,i)=>s=n<1?s:(k=n|0)+' '+'second,minute,hour,day,week,month,year'.split,[n/=v,i])|k>1?s+'s':s  Try it online! • I wasn't aware of the syntax that you used (split,). I learned something new. Great solution. – Makotosan Mar 18 '18 at 14:18 • @Makotosan Note that what is actually passed to split is the array [',']. Therefore, this only works with functions that force coercion to a string. – Arnauld Mar 18 '18 at 14:25 Java 8, 197195 157 bytes n->(n<60?n+" second":(n/=60)<60?n+" minute":(n/=60)<24?n+" hour":(n/=24)<7?n+" day":n<31?(n/=7)+" week":n<365?(n/=31)+" month":(n/=365)+" year")+(n>1?"s":"")  -38 bytes thanks to @OlivierGrégoire. Explanation: Try it online. n-> // Method with long parameter and String return-type (n<60? // If n is below 60: n // Output n +" second" // + " second" :(n/=60)<60? // Else-if n is below 60*60 n // Integer-divide n by 60, and output it +" minute" // + " minute" :(n/=60)<24? // Else-if n is below 60*60*24: n // Integer-divide n by 60*60, and output it +" hour" // + " hour" :(n/=24)<7? // Else-if n is below 60*60*24*7: n // Integer-divide n by 60*60*24, and output it +" day" // + " day" :n<31? // Else-if n is below 60*60*24*31: (n/=7) // Integer-divide n by 60*60*24*7, and output it +" week" // + " week" :n<365? // Else-if n is below 60*60*24*365: (n/=31) // Integer-divide n by 60*60*24*31, and output it +" month" // + " month" : // Else: (n/=365) // Integer-divide n by 60*60*24*365, and output it +" year") // + " year" +(n>1?"s":"") // And add a trailing (plural) "s" if (the new) n is larger than 1  • 157 bytes. I just golfed your numbers to shorter ones and moved /= around where needed. – Olivier Grégoire Mar 19 '18 at 13:14 • Personal favourite: n->{for(int t=60,d[]={1,t,t*=60,t*=24,t*7,t*31,t*365},x=7;;)if(n>=d[--x])return(n/=d[x])+" "+"second,minute,hour,day,week,month,year".split(",")[x]+(n>1?"s":"");} (162 bytes), probably a good base for golfing. – Olivier Grégoire Mar 19 '18 at 13:32 • Save 9 bytes using n/7+ instead of (n/=7)+ etc. – Neil Mar 21 '18 at 12:37 • @Neil I'm afraid that won't work. For example, if the input is 2678400, the output should be 1 month instead of 1 months (singular instead of plural). – Kevin Cruijssen Mar 22 '18 at 8:48 • Oh, subtle, thanks for letting me know. – Neil Mar 22 '18 at 8:54 Kotlin, 205203 196 bytes x->val d=86400 with(listOf(1 to "second",60 to "minute",3600 to "hour",d to "day",d*7 to "week",d*31 to "month",d*365 to "year").last{x>=it.first}){val c=x/first "$c ${second+if(c>1)"s" else ""}"}  Try it online! T-SQL, 306 bytes (281 bytes without I/O) DECLARE @n INT=1 DECLARE @r VARCHAR(30)=TRIM(COALESCE(STR(NULLIF(@n/31536000,0))+' year',STR(NULLIF(@n/2678400,0))+' month',STR(NULLIF(@n/604800,0))+' week',STR(NULLIF(@n/86400,0))+' day',STR(NULLIF(@n/3600,0))+' hour',STR(NULLIF(@n/60,0))+' minute',STR(@n)+' second'))IF LEFT(@r,2)>1 SET @r+='s' PRINT @r  • Two small typos: TRIM is not defined, this possibly should be LTRIM. Between week and day, you have a + , should possibly be a , – Stephan Bauer Mar 19 '18 at 10:23 • Indeed, instead of +  it should be a , and I corrected that now. However, the TRIM function is defined since SQL Server 2017. Thanks. – Razvan Socol Mar 19 '18 at 11:37 R, 157 bytes function(n,x=cumprod(c(1,60,60,24,7,31/7,365/31)),i=cut(n,x),o=n%/%x[i])cat(o," ",c("second","minute","hour","day","week","year")[i],"if"(o>1,"s",""),sep="")  Try it online! cut is handy, since it splits ranges into factors, which are stored internally as integers, meaning we can use them as array indices as well. We can probably do something a bit more clever with the time period names, but I can't figure it out just yet. APL+WIN, 88 119 bytes Original version missed out weeks and months as pointed out by Phil H;( Prompts screen input of number of seconds a←⌽<\⌽1≤b←⎕÷×\1 60 60 24 7,(31÷7),365÷31⋄b,(-(b←⌊a/b)=1)↓∊a/'seconds' 'minutes' 'hours' 'days' 'weeks' 'months' 'years'  Explanation b←⎕÷×\1 60 60 24 7,(31÷7),365÷31 prompts for input and converts to years, days, hours, minutes, seconds a←⌽<\⌽1≤b identify largest unit of time and assign it to a a/'years' 'days' 'hours' 'minutes' 'seconds' select time unit (-(b←⌊a/b)=1)↓∊ determine if singular if so drop final s in time unit b, concatenate number of units to time unit from previous steps  • Did someone eat the weeks and months? – Phil H Mar 21 '18 at 17:19 • @PhilH Cookie monster ? ;) Thanks. Answer edited accordingly. – Graham Mar 21 '18 at 20:07 • It looked too neat, even for APL! Also, how are you counting the bytes? I count 119 characters rather than bytes... – Phil H Mar 22 '18 at 12:55 • @PhilH I do not understand your comment first we agree on 119 bytes which I changed on editing the answer and above you do not say how many bytes you are questioning – Graham Mar 22 '18 at 13:11 JavaScript (Node.js), 177 bytes x=>{return d=86400,v=[[d*365,'year'],[d*31,'month'],[d*7,'week'],[d,'day'],[3600,'hour'],[60,'minute'],[1,'second']].find(i=>x>=i[0]),c=parseInt(x/v[0]),c+' '+v[1]+(c>1?'s':'')}  Try it online! Batch, 185 bytes @for %%t in (1.second 60.minute 3600.hour 43200.day 302400.week, 1339200.month, 15768000.year)do @if %1 geq %%~nt set/an=%1/%%~nt&set u=%%~xt @if %n% gtr 1 set u=%u%s @echo %n%%u:.= %  Python 2, 146 144 bytes lambda n,d=86400:[n/x+' '+y+'s'*(n/x>1)for x,y in zip([365*d,31*d,7*d,d,3600,60,1],'year month week day hour minute second'.split())if n/x][0]  Try it online! 2 bytes saved thanks to Jonathan Allan • if n/x saves a byte. – Jonathan Allan Mar 18 '18 at 12:55 • Reversing the order and indexing with 0 saves another. – Jonathan Allan Mar 18 '18 at 13:00 PHP, 183 bytes <?$a=[second=>$l=1,minute=>60,hour=>60,day=>24,week=>7,month=>31/7,year=>365/31];foreach($a as$p=>$n){$q=$n*$l;if($q<=$s=$argv[1])$r=($m=floor($s/$q))." $p".($m>1?s:"");$l=$q;}echo$r;  Try it online! Julia 0.6, 161 bytes f(n,d=cumprod([1,60,60,24,7,31/7,365/31]),r=div.(n,d),i=findlast(r.>=1),l=Int(r[i]))="$l $(split("second minute hour day week month year",' ')[i])$("s"^(l>1*1))"


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Ruby, 129 bytes

->n{x=[365*d=24*k=3600,d*31,d*7,d,k,60,1].index{|j|0<d=n/k=j};"#{d} #{%w{year month week day hour minute second}[x]}#{d>1??s:p}"}


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Perl 6/Rakudo 138 bytes

I'm sure there's further to go, but for now

{my @d=(365/31,31/7,7,24,60,60);$_/=@d.pop while @d&&$_>@d[*-1];$_.Int~" "~ <year month week day hour minute second>[+@d]~($_>1??"s"!!"")}


Explicate:

{ # bare code block, implicit $_ input my @d=(365/31,31/7,7,24,60,60); # ratios between units$_ /= @d.pop while @d && $_ > @d[*-1]; # pop ratios off @d until dwarfed$_.Int~   # implicitly output: rounded count
" "~  # space
<year month week day hour minute second>[+@d]~ # unit given @d
($_>1??"s"!!"") # plural }  R, 336 Working in progress function(x){ a=cumprod(c(1,60,60,24,7,31/7,365/31)) t=c("second","minute","hour","day","week","month") e=as.data.frame(cbind(table(cut(x,a,t)),a,t)) y=x%/%as.integer(as.character(e$a[e$V1==1])) ifelse(x>=a[7],paste(x%/%a[7],ifelse(x%/%a[7]==1,"year","years")), ifelse(y>1,paste(y,paste0(e$t[e$V1==1],"s")),paste(y,e$t[e\$V1==1])))}


R, 246 bytes

f=function(x,r=as.integer(strsplit(strftime(as.POSIXlt(x,"","1970-01-01"),"%Y %m %V %d %H %M %S")," ")[[1]])-c(1970,1,1,1,1,0,0),i=which.max(r>0)){cat(r[i],paste0(c("year","month","week","day","hour","minute","second")[i],ifelse(r[i]>1,"s","")))}


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This is using time formating instead of arithemtics, just for the hell of it. Maybe others could make this smaller?