Human-friendly time period descriptions

Rails
1

Thought I’d post this as it might be useful to someone else as well.

I was looking for a way to convert the difference in duration between
two
times, in seconds, to a friendly, human-readable form such as “2 weeks,
3
days, 1 hour and 11 minutes” similar to the way
distance_of_time_in_words()
does for past times in DateHelper.

I couldn’t find one already made so I wrote my own:

http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/04/english-friendly-timespan/

I think this sort of thing might be useful to others if included in
DateHelper. Thoughts?

Cheers
Chris

2

Thought I’d post this as it might be useful to someone else as well.

I was looking for a way to convert the difference in duration between
two
times, in seconds, to a friendly, human-readable form such as “2 weeks,
3
days, 1 hour and 11 minutes” similar to the way
distance_of_time_in_words()
does for past times in DateHelper.

I couldn’t find one already made so I wrote my own:

 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/04/english-friendly-timespan/

I think this sort of thing might be useful to others if included in
DateHelper. Thoughts?

Cheers
Chris