From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T09:21:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing times?

Eric Armstrong wrote:
> This is driving me crazy. I know I
> saw a way to do an "almost" comparison,
> where "x == y +/- some delta". But I'm
> hanged if I can find it. I've looked
> everywhere...
>
>
Well, test/unit has assert_in_delta. Is that what you're thinking of? In 
any case, it seems to me that

(x - y).abs < delta

would do the trick quite neatly.