From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T05:44:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7911] Re: Code sample for improvement

GOTO Kentaro wrote:

> Can I send joke?  :-)
> 
> zsh> ruby -e '#!/usr/bin/env ruby
> 
>      require "date"
> 
>      ("%d years %d months %d days %s\n" %
>       [ARGV[0].to_i.divmod 86400].map{|days,secs|
>         [Date.new0(days+5373485), Time.at(secs).gmtime]
>       }.map{|d,t|
>         [d.year-10000, d.month-1, d.mday-1,
>           "%d hours %d mins %d secs" % t.to_a.indices(2,1,0)]
>       }.shift).display
> 
> ' 0123456789012346789
> 3912189903 years 10 months 26 days 5 hours 39 mins 49 secs
> zsh>

Pretty clever joke. 

How about centuries and millenia (since we only have a few days left tell 
the next one).

Conrad Schneiker
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