Mighty Perlmonks,

I have an x amount of seconds and would like to print it in a smart, human readable and intuitive format:

For instance: 
# no need to write days, hours, seconds but
# write minute in singular
$ perl nice-epoch 60
1 minute

# both second and minute is written singular
$ perl nice-epoch 61
1 minute, 1 second

# write minute in singular
$ perl nice-epoch 62
in 1 minute, 2 seconds

# no need to write days/hours or seconds but 
# write seconds in plural
$ perl nice-epoch 120
in 2 minutes

# no need to write hours, minutes, seconds
$ perl nice-epoch 65400005465 
in 756944 days

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I tried to write something like that on my own based on 101511 but with all the plural/singular, is it zero or not it gets endless complicated and I wonder if any of you could recommend a already existing module.

Rakzer

In reply to smart human readable time epoch by rakzer

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