From: "ABHILASH M.A" <abhidsm@...>
Date: 2011-03-10T01:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Time Diff Module

David Clements wrote in post #23880:
> 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

There is a gem available to find the difference in a useful way.

https://rubygems.org/gems/time_diff

This will return a hash of difference in year, month, week, day, hour,
minute, second

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