title: My PeriodFormatter is not behaving as I expect - what have I done wrong?
body: <p>I'm having trouble using Joda Time's PeriodFormatter.  I want one to report days, hours, minutes and seconds but my attempt seems to be wrapping around weeks.  What should I be doing differently?</p>
  
  <pre><code>import org.joda.time.DateTime;
  import org.joda.time.Period;
  import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormatter;
  import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormatterBuilder;
  
  public class Problems {
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
  
          PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
              .printZeroNever()
              .appendDays()
              .appendSuffix(" day", " days")
              .appendSeparator(", ")
              .appendHours()
              .appendSuffix(" hour", " hours")
              .appendSeparator(", ")
              .appendMinutes()
              .appendSuffix(" minute", " minutes")
              .appendSeparator(", ")
              .appendSeconds()
              .appendSuffix(" second", " seconds")
              .toFormatter();
  
          DateTime now = new DateTime();
          DateTime justUnderAWeekAgo = now.minusDays(7).plusMinutes(1);
          DateTime justOverAWeekAgo = now.minusDays(7).minusMinutes(1);
          System.out.println(now);
          System.out.println(justUnderAWeekAgo);
          System.out.println(justOverAWeekAgo);
          // I am happy with the following:
          System.out.println(
              formatter.print(new Period(justUnderAWeekAgo, now)));
          // But not with this (outputs "1 minute" but I want "7 days, 1 minute"):
          System.out.println(
              formatter.print(new Period(justOverAWeekAgo, now)));
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> I guess I can see why this isn't working - i.e. that the formatter just prints the Period's various values, and since Periods store a value for weeks, the value for days on my problem period is indeed 0.  But I still need a good way of doing this...</p>