Re: Proposed new package: Time.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pierre-Alain Joye, el viernes 21 de febrero a las 14:26 me escribiste: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:18:26 -0300 > Leandro Lucarella <luca@llucax.hn.org> wrote: > > > > I don't think so. I need just to operate times, if I use a Date_Time > > class is an useless overhead. I thought maybe we can add a > > Date_DateTime package or so to mix both. > > Another reason is (even when now it just works with 24 hs) I want this > > class to support "infinite" hours, say "The proccess takes 78:40:23 > > hours" or so, this has no sense in a Date_Time class. > > That's why I proposed to be a "root level" class and don't put it on > > Date subdirectory. > > I want to add a 24hs flag to this class so it can be safe to mix it > > with Date to make a Date_Time class. > > If I understand well, this package is a time span manager ? A time time I'm sorry about my english but I don't know what a "time span manager" is. > span should be defined in days, hours, mins and secs, with different > methods to get the span value in h:m:s, m:s, or simply seconds. I think I understand what you mean. Is something like this, but simpler, if you continue, you can add months and years too :) This is not the idea. The reason for this package is I want to count worked hours, so the original class was made just for 24hs, but to count time intervals, not to see what day/time is. I thought it could be helpfull to add support for 24hs+ but just if other people need it and if I doesn't means to add much complexity to the class. > Besides that, a timespan is in most of cases, used with a date, and/or a > timezone. For this reason, imho, it is far better to get the whole stuff > in one package. Else two packages will be needed, the Time_Span, and > Date_Time, which provide a bridge between Date and Time, oooch, this is > overdesign/head ;-)) Mmm, I don't understand what Time Span is again? I thought is like counting Time intervals? Anyway, I think I can make the class to support 24hs+ and add some methods like setFromDays(), setFromMonths(), setFromYears() (too much? :) and toDays(), toMonths(), toYears(). But as with the other setFromXxx() and toXxx() methods, quantities are float values (like 1.23 months and 0.12 years). - -- LUCA - Leandro Lucarella - Usando Debian GNU/Linux Sid - GNU Generation - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail / JID: luca@lugmen.org.ar GPG Fingerprint: D9E1 4545 0F4B 7928 E82C 375D 4B02 0FE0 B08B 4FB2 GPG Key: gpg --keyserver pks.lugli.org.ar --recv-keys B08B4FB2 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cada poema es único. En cada obra late, con mayor o menor grado, toda la poesía. Cada lector busca algo en el poema. Y no es insólito que lo encuentre: Ya lo llevaba dentro. -- Octavio Paz. (1914-1998) Escritor mexicano. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ViyiSwIP4LCLT7IRAkZmAKCvPjFV+5pCe5K7w0PLRVXjYzsHTACePkel ruJKR46DqWk2IAkjJNABWaU= =kINi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----