From: Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@...>
Date: 2007-12-03T05:58:29+09:00
Subject: Name this method...

First off, if there's already a method that does this please point it
out; I couldn't find one so I wrote my own.

It's currently called #to_elapsed_time and is attached to Fixnum. What
it does...

>> 10.to_elapsed_time
=> {:days=>0, :minutes=>0, :seconds=>10, :hours=>0}
>> 75.to_elapsed_time
=> {:days=>0, :minutes=>1, :seconds=>15, :hours=>0}
>> 75018.to_elapsed_time
=> {:days=>0, :minutes=>50, :seconds=>18, :hours=>20}
>> 789010.to_elapsed_time
=> {:days=>9, :minutes=>10, :seconds=>10, :hours=>3}

The current name makes sense to me because I wrote it with this in mind:

started = Time.now
ended = Time.now + some_time_into_the_future
elapsed = (ended.to_i - started.to_i).to_elapsed_time

Looking at it now I suppose I could attach it to Time, too...

time_1.elapsed(time_2)

That would be kinda cool, too.

What do you think?
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