2015-11-24 12:14 GMT-03:00 Skip Lentz <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I also had an idea for a method which returns the most significant unit of a > Duration. > > For example, you have a duration of 432 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes, 5 seconds, > etc., and > it would return you "432 days" (or just “1 year”). I encountered this when > wanting to create > a time indication on e.g. a commit or a comment. It’s much more readable and > user-friendly > than a timestamp. > > Would this be a nice addition to the Duration API?
It would be nice to have. But why not something like a DurationFormatter? that in turn collaborates with the Locale to ge the words for "Year, Month, Week" in the current language. Regards!
