objutil/duration.go
func AppendDuration(b []byte, d time.Duration) []byte {
	// Largest time is 2540400h10m10.000000000s
	var buf [32]byte
	w := len(buf)

	u := uint64(d)
	neg := d < 0
	if neg {
		u = -u
	}

	if u < uint64(time.Second) {
		// Special case: if duration is smaller than a second,
		// use smaller units, like 1.2ms
		var prec int
		w--
		buf[w] = 's'
		w--
		switch {
		case u == 0:
			return append(b, '0', 's')
		case u < uint64(time.Microsecond):
			// print nanoseconds
			prec = 0
			buf[w] = 'n'
		case u < uint64(time.Millisecond):
			// print microseconds
			prec = 3
			// U+00B5 'µ' micro sign == 0xC2 0xB5
			w-- // Need room for two bytes.
			copy(buf[w:], "µ")
		default:
			// print milliseconds
			prec = 6
			buf[w] = 'm'
		}
		w, u = fmtFrac(buf[:w], u, prec)
		w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u)
	} else {
		w--
		buf[w] = 's'

		w, u = fmtFrac(buf[:w], u, 9)

		// u is now integer seconds
		w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u%60)
		u /= 60

		// u is now integer minutes
		if u > 0 {
			w--
			buf[w] = 'm'
			w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u%60)
			u /= 60

			// u is now integer hours
			// Stop at hours because days can be different lengths.
			if u > 0 {
				w--
				buf[w] = 'h'
				w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u)
			}
		}
	}

	if neg {
		w--
		buf[w] = '-'
	}

	return append(b, buf[w:]...)
}
func AppendDuration(b []byte, d time.Duration) []byte {
	// Largest time is 2540400h10m10.000000000s
	var buf [32]byte
	w := len(buf)

	u := uint64(d)
	neg := d < 0
	if neg {
		u = -u
	}

	if u < uint64(time.Second) {
		// Special case: if duration is smaller than a second,
		// use smaller units, like 1.2ms
		var prec int
		w--
		buf[w] = 's'
		w--
		switch {
		case u == 0:
			return append(b, '0', 's')
		case u < uint64(time.Microsecond):
			// print nanoseconds
			prec = 0
			buf[w] = 'n'
		case u < uint64(time.Millisecond):
			// print microseconds
			prec = 3
			// U+00B5 'µ' micro sign == 0xC2 0xB5
			w-- // Need room for two bytes.
			copy(buf[w:], "µ")
		default:
			// print milliseconds
			prec = 6
			buf[w] = 'm'
		}
		w, u = fmtFrac(buf[:w], u, prec)
		w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u)
	} else {
		w--
		buf[w] = 's'

		w, u = fmtFrac(buf[:w], u, 9)

		// u is now integer seconds
		w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u%60)
		u /= 60

		// u is now integer minutes
		if u > 0 {
			w--
			buf[w] = 'm'
			w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u%60)
			u /= 60

			// u is now integer hours
			// Stop at hours because days can be different lengths.
			if u > 0 {
				w--
				buf[w] = 'h'
				w = fmtInt(buf[:w], u)
			}
		}
	}

	if neg {
		w--
		buf[w] = '-'
	}

	return append(b, buf[w:]...)
}
// AppendDuration appends a human-readable representation of d to b.
//
// The function copies the implementation of time.Duration.String but prevents
// Go from making a dynamic memory allocation on the returned value.