Excel function to calculate minutes to days, hours, minutes

I am looking for assistance with excel function to find the minutes converted to days, hours, minutes in the attached. In Column A I have the values and result in column B. Can this be populated with the help of excel function in Column C?

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The "Time" data are in seconds, I guess?

...that's really neat Dave. I like it. Not seen that technique before.

A nice trick, but the result I see in Excel 2019 is:

03 days h hours 1 minutes
03 days h hours 1 minutes
03 days h hours 1 minutes
01 days h hours 1 minutes


Whereas vijanand1279 didn't specify them explicitly, the format requirements seems to be
1) no leading zeroes;
2) no output for zero values;
3) the singular form of the time unit if the correspoding value is 1.

Can it be done just by using cell formating features?

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Title fine now.

@vijanand1279, "minutes converted" - are you sure? The input data seem to be seconds, not minutes.

Yes, it must that long or similar. The only simplifications I can see at the moment are replacing /60/60/24 with /86400 and /60/60 with /3600 but the difference in length is practically invsible.

Edit: a little bit shorter version
=IF(INT(A2/86400),INT(A2/86400)&" day"&IF(A2/86400>=2,"s "," "),"")&IF(INT(MOD(A2/3600,24)),INT(MOD(A2/3600,24))&" hour"&IF(MOD(A2/3600,24)>=2, "s "," "),"")&IF(INT(MOD(A2/60,60)),INT(MOD(A2/60,60))&" minute"&IF(MOD(A2/60,60)>=2,"s",""),"")

Are you open to alternative outputs, or are you required to use the specified text string output? Here's how I would probably do it:

1) Use the CONVERT() function or equivalent to convert from seconds to days -> CONVERT(A2,"sec","day"). This will give a decimal day output that, for my purposes, is almost always enough.
2) If desired, use Excel's built in sexegesimal number format to show the value as days:hours:minutes with a number format code of dd:hh:mm. Remember that the underlying value is still the fraction of a day number that the CONVERT() function returns. Usually I find this advantageous for downstream calculations that want to use this number. The text string that your example shows is nearly useless for downstream calculations.
3) If you really like the display in the sample, you can enclose appropriate text in " " in a number format code (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...rs=en-us&ad=us ). Something like d" days "h" hours "m" minutes" will show something similar to your text string, but retain the underlying decimal days value.

I don't know that it is any simpler than other suggestions, but I would tend to prefer a number format where possible so that the numeric value of the underlying value is retained.