Java – use durationformatutils to format periods in a good way

This is very effective:

out.println(DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod(
                        new Date().getTime(),match.getStartingTime().getTime(),"d H"));

But now I want some better formats

out.println(DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod(
                        new Date().getTime(),"d days H hours left"));

But as expected, the output is

Is there a simple solution to this problem?

Solution

It seems that their format is based on simpledateformatter, and the escape character is' '

So your code is like this:

"d 'days' H 'hours left'"