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Fix int overflow in DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod#1720

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Repro: DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod(0, 2175984000000L, "s", true, gmt) for a ~69 year span (gmt is TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")).
Expected: 2175984000, the value the sibling formatDuration(2175984000000L, "s") returns for the same span.
Actual: -2118983296.

Cause: formatPeriod keeps its day/hour/minute/second estimates in int. When the format omits a higher field, that field is funnelled into the next lower one (hours += 24 * days, minutes += 60 * hours, seconds += 60 * minutes) in int arithmetic before the values widen to the long parameters of format. Past a few decades the second (or millisecond) count exceeds Integer.MAX_VALUE and the multiply wraps negative.

Fix: declare the six estimate locals as long so the reduction runs in long, the same way formatDuration already reduces the span. milliseconds was already long; normal-size durations produce identical output.

@garydgregory garydgregory changed the title fix int overflow in DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod Fix int overflow in DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod Jun 20, 2026

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Hello @alhudz

Thank you for the PR.

Would you please add a tests that:

  • asserts that the right formatting happens for inputs around and at Long.MAX_VALUE, for example the duration starting at Long.MAX_VALUE -1 and ending at Long.MAX_VALUE.
  • Same for Long.MIN_VALUE
  • Same for Integer.MIN_VALUE

This should hopefully show that we can correctly handle the full range of long millisecond values for the input to this method.

TY!

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