I did a *much* smaller version of this for an IRC trivia bot some time ago. When I get home this evening, I'll post it in the box below. "Humanizing" data is very important in user interfaces, and I'm tired of so many programs training users to be digital when a good program can train the computer to present things in analog. 
# will update this box tonight

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I assembled the elements like "4 minutes" in an array, and found truncating them to be useful for most human-scale messages. Most users don't care about the lesser-significant items. Thus, "4 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes, and 40 seconds" would get chopped to two or three units, giving "4 years, and 6 months".

I was also working on a 'fuzzy' version which would give nice approximation according to the remainder: "nearly 4 years and 7 months".

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In reply to Re: RFC: Seconds2English by halley
in thread RFC: Seconds2English by Limbic~Region

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