From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-02T02:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get internal state of DateTime in seconds

Charles Comstock wrote:
> Umm I don't understand how this relates, I can construct Time objects 
> from strings just fine (parsedate), I want a library to take the time 
> difference in seconds from two Time or Date objects, and format output 
> of that into something meaningful, ie %H:%M:%S would result in 
> "00:04:00" for your example difference.  But it should scale all the way 
> up to differences in Months/Years.  It seems like a perfectly useful 
> library, and I was suprised it hadn't been written.  Yes it's just 
> division up to months, and then months cares what the actual start/end 
> times were, but still it seems like a useful object.  Seconds is all 
> fine and good when your just recording short ranges, but for longer...

Personally up to "days" would be good enough for me. I once wrote a
simple method sec2dhms that took seconds and returned [days,hours,
minutes,seconds].

"Month" and even "year" are problematic because they don't have a single
fixed length.

Hal