From: matthew@... Date: 2016-03-15T00:10:36+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:74311] [Ruby trunk Feature#12173] `Time#till_now` Issue #12173 has been updated by Matthew Kerwin. Tsuyoshi Sawada wrote: > Matthew Kerwin wrote: > > Please note that "till_now" is not correct spelling; it should be "until_now" or "til_now" > > *till* and *until* are the correct spelling. Perhaps you are confusing it with *'til* (which is pretty much informal). *till* means cash register, or to plough soil. *'til* is an abbreviation of *until*, which isn't allowed in Ruby syntax so I dropped the apostrophe. ---------------------------------------- Feature #12173: `Time#till_now` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12173#change-57431 * Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- 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." -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: