Re: Display of DateTime::Duration object in human readable string

Get the duration in units of months, days, minutes, seconds from DateTime::Duration object; then convert (to other units or to a string) as you please. See the pod of the module for caveats.

(update) As you are calling subtract_datetime_absolute, you only need to get second (and nanosecond if you care) from the *::Duration object.

I personally did not care for any of the caveats about a day not being strictly 24 hour, etc. when I wanted to estimate finish time of transfer of ~40 TB of data. So, I did ...

# Conversion to day unit.
my ( $day, $min, $sec ) = map { $duration->in_units( $_ ) } qw[ days m
+inutes seconds ];
$day_duration = $day + ( $min/60 + $sec/3600 ) /24;
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Re^2: Display of DateTime::Duration object in human readable string by Aldebaran (Curate) on Oct 15, 2021 at 03:00 UTC
(update) As you are calling subtract_datetime_absolute, you only need to get second (and nanosecond if you care) from the ::Duration object.* My script is far from polished, but I wanted to get it out there before this thing goes down. Read more... (8 kB) Again one faces questions of validity. A typical value for the conjunction of the moon and jupiter is `2021-10-15T09:26:57` At Fourmilab's site , this happens 34-39 minutes later, between: `2021-10-15 10:00:00` , and: `2021-10-15 10:05:00` I tried to work it up in python, but it could not find the ephem module after I had snapd it in, so I don't know how to check it other than waiting for the values in Stellarium. (Thx karlgoethebier) Q1) Have we agreed that I'm gonna end up with seconds from DateTime::Duration*, and I might as well roll my own days, hours, minutes, seconds from that? I don't think DateTime can do it because of the vagaries of losing a second in the 70's, for example. (?) I will be traveling under this moon tomorrow, and I love to watch it from different perspectives as I cross mountian ranges. It rose and set a couple times relative to me the last time I drove this stretch, like a yoyo.... Happy skywatching!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Display of DateTime::Duration object in human readable string by parv (Parson) on Oct 20, 2021 at 05:14 UTC
I do not know enough, or care enough to find out currently, about the predicted motions of Moon & Venus. My interest in this thread is due to issues of and with `DateTime`. Q1) Have we agreed that I'm gonna end up with seconds from DateTime::Duration, and I might as well roll my own days, hours, minutes, seconds from that? Looks so: I suggested to convert human readable string based on *::Duration documentation; you seem to want to do so.	[reply] [d/l]


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