On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:19:52PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Division works for every unit but months and years. Perhaps it could be
> implemented for durations that are only days/hours/minutes and throw an
> exception if it contains a month or year?
That's only approximately true. Some days contain 25 or 23 hours (consider
the days where daylight savings switches over), and when a leap second is
introduced, a minute can contain 61 seconds or a day can contain 86401
seconds. Context (an absolute date) is needed to perform these duration
calculations correctly.
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