From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-12-24T17:46:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8027] Re: Code sample for improvement

In message "[ruby-talk:7911] Re: Code sample for improvement"
    on 00/12/22, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:
>> 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).

I'd like to wait date.rb's support :-)

By the way, are the concepts of century or millennium defined by a
calender?  I'm not sure I'm in the second millennium or the third...

# Sorry for off-topic. 

-- gotoken