How long does  erase settings and content take?

Let me try this again. My question is......  "How long does the erase settings and content process take?"  I have an iPhone 4s 16gig.
Its been on the screen black screen with  rotating circle for about an hour already.
Hope this doesnt get my  post erased again.

You're over 2 months late on this reply, and also wrong. Erase All Content and Settings on any phone from the 3GS forward simply writes over the encryption key, thus scrambling all of the data on the phone. It takes under 10 seconds. On the iPhone Classic and 3G it could take several hours, but not phones with hardware encryption line the 3GS, 4, 4S and 5.

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