From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T05:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Duration 0.0.4

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On 9/28/06, Matthew Harris <shugotenshi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to happily introduce Duration, the package for managing
> timespan durations. Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted
> to print a human-readable representation of a duration, maybe
> something like "4 days, 20 minutes and 8 seconds"?
>
> Well, Duration gives you this functionality. I have written a detailed
> wiki article at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Duration where
> you can read about how to install and use Duration.
>
> The current version is 0.0.4 and is quite stable. If you find any
> bugs, please email me the bug with a relevant email subject.
>
> Any feature requests should be sent to my email as well, as I am very
> interested in to hear and possibly implement what you as the user
> would feel would enhance Duration.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Matt


You mention that it can convert number of days/weeks into months.  How do
you deal with the fact that a "month" doesn't have a standard number of
days?  Do you do as the Rails extension does by assuming a fixed number, or
some other form of trickery?


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