Re: Proposed new package: Time.

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:41:54 -0300 Leandro Lucarella <luca@llucax.hn.org> wrote: > I'm sorry about my english but I don't know what a "time span manager" > is. A span represent a distance, in this case, a time distance, the span between 14:00 and 15:30:23 is 1:30:23. > I think I understand what you mean. Is something like this, but > simpler, if you continue, you can add months and years too :) I do not think years/months should be added too, except if you define a default month/year length. Usually, the span is defined as days,hours,mins and seconds. For instance, you can take a look to the different Date/Time packages in python, perl, or C/C++ APIs. > 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. Let see, worked hours mean a list of time span, no ? If I work from 8:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 17:00, I got 2 timespan (worked hours), of 4:00:00. Is that not the same thing ? > 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). hmm dunno if it is usefull to set values using this scheme, humans are not smart with decimal based time :), but it may be possible to add different set methods. +1 to add it to Date, with additionnals features if needed (see Wolfgang and Lukas posts). pierre