From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T17:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Time interval

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if anyone has implemented an "Interval" class
>>> of some sort out there, i.e. something that would give you the
>>> years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds between two fixed
>>> DateTime objects, rather than an absolute date.
>>
>>
>> Note that it's easy to output difference in seconds, minutes, hours,
>> days and weeks but then it starts to get more difficult.
>
> You mean with the existing DateTime class?  How?  I thought this was
> possible, but my Google skills appear to be failing me at the moment.
> My own experiments weren't much better.

No, I mean because of the underlying model (our calendar).  Months have
different lengths.  Same for years and quarters.

Kind regards

    robert