From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-18T02:02:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Time Diff Module

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 01:48 +0900, David Clements wrote:
> Anyone know of a module out there that will encapsulate differences in time?
> 
> Ideally I would want something like this:
> 
> d1 = DateTime.now + 2.hours + 2.minutes
> d2 = DateTime.now
> 
> diff = d1-d2
> 
> 
> puts "Diff:  #{diff.hours}:#{diff.minutes}"
> 
> 
> >> Diff: 2:02
> 
> I have searched for examples and all of them seem to be doing this manually.
> 
> Dave

Ruby on Rails' ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Numeric::Time module
supports this. The gem is activesupport. You might want to extract it
somehow to avoid getting the rest of the library if you don't need it.

Jon

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