I think larger units were added since 1.14, but if you cannot upgrade for some reason, Timex has a nice API: `Timex.shift(dt, months: 1, days: 4.5, minutes: -30, seconds: 50)`
Sent from Proton Mail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On 12 Dec 2022, 20:21, Daniel Kukuła wrote: > Hi - this bothers me because every time when I wan't to add longer period of > time I need to manually calculate the number instead of use something built > in or use erlang. > > `DateTime.add(DateTime.utc_now(), :timer.hours(-30 * 24), :millisecond)` . > > Erlang has up to 1hour shortcut functions - but 1day still is 24h and > everytime let's say we wan't to expire some old data from database then > DateTime.add(-30, :days) is still plenty good for most of the cases. > In python timedelta you can specify also weeks: > ``` > from datetime import timedeltadelta = timedelta( days=50, seconds=27, > microseconds=10, milliseconds=29000, minutes=5, hours=8, weeks=2) > ``` > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b3abc7f0-7989-42f5-a087-3443155f69d6n%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b3abc7f0-7989-42f5-a087-3443155f69d6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/IaVAEQACh7Kx8HGIff3olnMgJIcHTM3pToJyhWTXrR8eS5mR8yMwaTTEmLjbAKL_L37pLUFMzXCEBz74bszMqePN20UWB7oKLqye3jCP4cs%3D%40pm.me.
