From: sawadatsuyoshi@...
Date: 2016-03-14T19:48:41+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:74304] [Ruby trunk Feature#12173] `Time#till_now`

Issue #12173 has been updated by Tsuyoshi Sawada.


This can also be used to wait until a preset time:

~~~RUBY
target_time = Time.new(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
sleep(-target_time.till_now)
~~~

Or perhaps, the opposite (multiplied by `-1`) might be more intuitive:

~~~RUBY
class Time
  def from_now; self - self.class.now end
end
~~~

so that we can do:

~~~RUBY
target_time = Time.new(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
sleep(target_time.from_now)
~~~

or

t = Time.now
# some heavy operation
puts "It took #{-t.from_now} secs."

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Feature #12173: `Time#till_now`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12173#change-57422

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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It is very frequent to have a time instance:

~~~RUBY
t = Time.now
~~~

and then after some operations, do:

~~~RUBY
Time.now - t
~~~

I propose `Time#till_now`, which is equivalent to:

~~~RUBY
class Time
  def till_now; self.class.now - self end
end
~~~

and similar methods can perhaps be defined on `Date` and `DateTime` classes as well. Another candidate for the method name is `until_now`.

Then we can do:

~~~RUBY
t = Time.now
# some heavy operation
puts "It took #{t.till_now} secs."



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