From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T00:24:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Time interval

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:51 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Berger wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> For example:
> 
> require 'date'
> d1 = DateTime.parse( "2/1/2000" )
> d2 = DateTime.parse( "3/2/2000" )
> puts d2-d1 #=> 30
> 
> Should the human-readable difference in that time say:
> 1 month, 1 day
> 30 days
> 1 month
> ?

I wouldn't try to get more specific than *days*. :)

Regards,

Dan