Standard class for time *period*?
Loris Bennett
loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
Mon Mar 27 09:00:52 EDT 2023
Hi,
I have been around long enough to know that, due to time-zones, daylight
saving and whatnot, time-related stuff is complicated. So even if I
think something connected with time should exist, there may well be a
very good reason why it does not.
My problem:
I need to deal with what I call a 'period', which is a span of time
limited by two dates, start and end. The period has a 'duration',
which is the elapsed time between start and end. The duration is
essentially a number of seconds, but in my context, because the
durations are usually hours or days, I would generally want to display
the duration in a format such as "dd-hh:mm:ss"
My (possibly ill-founded) expectation:
There is a standard class which encapsulates this sort of functionality.
My (possibly insufficiently researched) conclusion:
Such a standard class does not exist.
What is at fault here? My expectation or my conclusion?
Cheers,
Loris
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