From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-06T06:43:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] timeunits-0.0.0


we've all written bits of it before, here it is for that don't want to:


NAME

   timeunits.rb

URIS

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople/
   http://codeforpeople.org/lib/ruby/

SYNOPSIS

   adds methods to Numeric and Time classes to support time units and time
   difference units.

EXAMPLE

     harp:~ > cat a.rb
     require "timeunits"
     require "yaml"

     now = Time::now

     a = now
     y "a" => a

     b = now + 2.hours + 2.minutes
     y "b" => b

     d = b - a
     %w( seconds minutes hours days ).each do |unit|
       y "d.#{ unit }" => d.send(unit)
     end

     harp:~ > ruby a.rb
     a: 2006-09-05 15:33:23.697319 -06:00
     b: 2006-09-05 17:35:23.697319 -06:00
     d.seconds: 7320.0
     d.minutes: 122.0
     d.hours: 2.03333333333333
     d.days: 0.0847222222222222

DOCS

   see lib/*


enjoy.

-a
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