Re: Proposed new package: Time.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pierre-Alain Joye, el viernes 21 de febrero a las 14:56 me escribiste: > 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. That's what I thought, I didn't saw the relation to dates... > > 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 Nice detail... :D > 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 ? Yep. > > 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). What does it means to "add it to Date"? A class merge? I'm still not happy with this, for me a time interval is not necesarly related to a date. - -- 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Los militares cuentan demasiado con la fuerza, y los politicos cuentan demasiado con la habilidad. -- Tournier. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+VjIESwIP4LCLT7IRAuqUAJ4iWhEnv2BEz8okwKCwWn+k1/fJHQCeICjg OgJx1orC4PjsywIW2Zdy6Uo= =iKnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----