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package Time::Duration;
$Time::Duration::VERSION = '1.21';
use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;
use constant DEBUG => 0;

require Exporter;

our @ISA         = ('Exporter');
our @EXPORT      = qw( later later_exact earlier earlier_exact
                       ago ago_exact from_now from_now_exact
                       duration duration_exact
                       concise
                     );
our @EXPORT_OK   = ('interval', @EXPORT);
our $MILLISECOND = 0;

# ALL SUBS ARE PURE FUNCTIONS

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

sub concise ($) {
  my $string = $_[0];
  DEBUG and print "in : $string\n";
  $string =~ tr/,//d;
  $string =~ s/\band\b//;
  $string =~ s/\b(year|day|hour|minute|second)s?\b/substr($1,0,1)/eg;
  $string =~ s/\b(millisecond)s?\b/ms/g;
  $string =~ s/\s*(\d+)\s*/$1/g;
  return $string;
}

sub later          { interval(      $_[0], $_[1], ' earlier',  ' later',    'right then'); }
sub later_exact    { interval_exact($_[0], $_[1], ' earlier',  ' later',    'right then'); }
sub earlier        { interval(      $_[0], $_[1], ' later',    ' earlier',  'right then'); }
sub earlier_exact  { interval_exact($_[0], $_[1], ' later',    ' earlier',  'right then'); }
sub ago            { interval(      $_[0], $_[1], ' from now', ' ago',      'right now');  }
sub ago_exact      { interval_exact($_[0], $_[1], ' from now', ' ago',      'right now');  }
sub from_now       { interval(      $_[0], $_[1], ' ago',      ' from now', 'right now');  }
sub from_now_exact { interval_exact($_[0], $_[1], ' ago',      ' from now', 'right now');  }

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sub duration_exact {
  my $span = $_[0];   # interval in seconds
  my $precision = int($_[1] || 0) || 2;  # precision (default: 2)
  return '0 seconds' unless $span;
  _render('',
          _separate(abs $span));
}

sub duration {
  my $span = $_[0];   # interval in seconds
  my $precision = int($_[1] || 0) || 2;  # precision (default: 2)
  return '0 seconds' unless $span;
  _render('',
          _approximate($precision,
                       _separate(abs $span)));
}

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

sub interval_exact {
  my $span = $_[0];                    # interval, in seconds
                                       # precision is ignored
  my $direction = ($span < 0) ? $_[2]  # what a neg number gets
                : ($span > 0) ? $_[3]  # what a pos number gets
                : return        $_[4]; # what zero gets
  _render($direction,
          _separate($span));
}

sub interval {
  my $span = $_[0];                     # interval, in seconds
  my $precision = int($_[1] || 0) || 2; # precision (default: 2)
  my $direction = ($span < 0) ? $_[2]   # what a neg number gets
                : ($span > 0) ? $_[3]   # what a pos number gets
                : return        $_[4];  # what zero gets
  _render($direction,
          _approximate($precision,
                       _separate($span)));
}

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#
# The actual figuring is below here

use constant MINUTE => 60;
use constant HOUR => 3600;
use constant DAY  => 24 * HOUR;
use constant YEAR => 365 * DAY;

sub _separate {
  # Breakdown of seconds into units, starting with the most significant
  
  my $remainder = abs $_[0]; # remainder
  my $this; # scratch
  my @wheel; # retval
  
  # Years:
  $this = int($remainder / (365 * 24 * 60 * 60));
  push @wheel, ['year', $this, 1_000_000_000];
  $remainder -= $this * (365 * 24 * 60 * 60);
    
  # Days:
  $this = int($remainder / (24 * 60 * 60));
  push @wheel, ['day', $this, 365];
  $remainder -= $this * (24 * 60 * 60);
    
  # Hours:
  $this = int($remainder / (60 * 60));
  push @wheel, ['hour', $this, 24];
  $remainder -= $this * (60 * 60);
  
  # Minutes:
  $this = int($remainder / 60);
  push @wheel, ['minute', $this, 60];
  $remainder -= $this * 60;
  
  push @wheel, ['second', int($remainder), 60];

# Thanks to Steven Haryanto (http://search.cpan.org/~sharyanto/) for the basis of this change.
	if ($MILLISECOND) {
		$remainder -= int($remainder);
		push @wheel, ['millisecond', sprintf("%0.f", $remainder * 1000), 1000];
	}

return @wheel;
}

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sub _approximate {
  # Now nudge the wheels into an acceptably (im)precise configuration
  my($precision, @wheel) = @_;

Fix:
  {
    # Constraints for leaving this block:
    #  1) number of nonzero wheels must be <= $precision
    #  2) no wheels can be improperly expressed (like having "60" for mins)
  
    my $nonzero_count = 0;
    my $improperly_expressed;

DEBUG and print join ' ', '#', (map "${$_}[1] ${$_}[0]",  @wheel), "\n";
    for(my $i = 0; $i < @wheel; $i++) {
      my $this = $wheel[$i];
      next if $this->[1] == 0; # Zeros require no attention.
      ++$nonzero_count;
      next if $i == 0; # the years wheel is never improper or over any limit; skip
      
      if($nonzero_count > $precision) {
        # This is one nonzero wheel too many!
        DEBUG and print '', $this->[0], " is one nonzero too many!\n";

# Incr previous wheel if we're big enough:
        if($this->[1] >= ($this->[-1] / 2)) {
          DEBUG and printf "incrementing %s from %s to %s\n",
           $wheel[$i-1][0], $wheel[$i-1][1], 1 + $wheel[$i-1][1], ;
          ++$wheel[$i-1][1];
        }

# Reset this and subsequent wheels to 0:
        for(my $j = $i; $j < @wheel; $j++) { $wheel[$j][1] = 0 }
        redo Fix; # Start over.
      } elsif($this->[1] >= $this->[-1]) {
        # It's an improperly expressed wheel.  (Like "60" on the mins wheel)
        $improperly_expressed = $i;
        DEBUG and print '', $this->[0], ' (', $this->[1], 
           ") is improper!\n";
      }
    }
    
    if(defined $improperly_expressed) {
      # Only fix the least-significant improperly expressed wheel (at a time).
      DEBUG and printf "incrementing %s from %s to %s\n",
       $wheel[$improperly_expressed-1][0], $wheel[$improperly_expressed-1][1], 
        1 + $wheel[$improperly_expressed-1][1], ;
      ++$wheel[ $improperly_expressed - 1][1];
      $wheel[ $improperly_expressed][1] = 0;
      # We never have a "150" in the minutes slot -- if it's improper,
      #  it's only by having been rounded up to the limit.
      redo Fix; # Start over.
    }
    
    # Otherwise there's not too many nonzero wheels, and there's no
    #  improperly expressed wheels, so fall thru...
  }

return @wheel;
}

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sub _render {
  # Make it into English

my $direction = shift @_;
  my @wheel = map
        {;
            (  $_->[1] == 0) ? ()  # zero wheels
            : ($_->[1] == 1) ? "${$_}[1] ${$_}[0]"  # singular
            :                  "${$_}[1] ${$_}[0]s" # plural
        }
        @_
  ;
  return "just now" unless @wheel; # sanity
  $wheel[-1] .= $direction;
  return $wheel[0] if @wheel == 1;
  return "$wheel[0] and $wheel[1]" if @wheel == 2;
  $wheel[-1] = "and $wheel[-1]";
  return join q{, }, @wheel;
}

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1;

__END__

so "1y 0d 1h 50m 50s", N=3, so you round at minutes to "1y 0d 1h 51m 0s",
#That's okay, so fall thru.

so "1y 1d 0h 59m 50s", N=3, so you round at minutes to "1y 1d 0h 60m 0s",
but that's not improperly expressed, so you loop around and get
"1y 1d 1h 0m 0s", which is short enough, and is properly expressed.

=head1 NAME

Time::Duration - rounded or exact English expression of durations

=head1 SYNOPSIS

Example use in a program that ends by noting its runtime:

my $start_time = time();
  use Time::Duration;
  
  # then things that take all that time, and then ends:
  print "Runtime ", duration(time() - $start_time), ".\n";

Example use in a program that reports age of a file:

use Time::Duration;
  my $file = 'that_file';
  my $age = $^T - (stat($file))[9];  # 9 = modtime
  print "$file was modified ", ago($age);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module provides functions for expressing durations in rounded or exact
terms.

In the first example in the Synopsis, using duration($interval_seconds):

If the C<time() - $start_time> is 3 seconds, this prints
"Runtime: B<3 seconds>.".  If it's 0 seconds, it's "Runtime: B<0 seconds>.".
If it's 1 second, it's "Runtime: B<1 second>.".  If it's 125 seconds, you
get "Runtime: B<2 minutes and 5 seconds>.".  If it's 3820 seconds (which
is exactly 1h, 3m, 40s), you get it rounded to fit within two expressed
units: "Runtime: B<1 hour and 4 minutes>.".  Using duration_exact instead
would return "Runtime: B<1 hour, 3 minutes, and 40 seconds>".

In the second example in the Synopsis, using ago($interval_seconds):

If the $age is 3 seconds, this prints
"I<file> was modified B<3 seconds ago>".  If it's 0 seconds, it's
"I<file> was modified B<just now>", as a special case.  If it's 1 second,
it's "from B<1 second ago>".  If it's 125 seconds, you get "I<file> was
modified B<2 minutes and 5 seconds ago>".  If it's 3820 seconds (which
is exactly 1h, 3m, 40s), you get it rounded to fit within two expressed
units: "I<file> was modified B<1 hour and 4 minutes ago>".  
Using ago_exact instead
would return "I<file> was modified B<1 hour, 3 minutes, and 40 seconds
ago>".  And if the file's
modtime is, surprisingly, three seconds into the future, $age is -3,
and you'll get the equally and appropriately surprising
"I<file> was modified B<3 seconds from now>."

=head1 MILLISECOND MODE

By default, this module assumes input is an integer representing number
of seconds and only emits results based on the integer part of any
floating-point values passed to it.  However, if you set the variable
C<$Time::Duration::MILLISECOND> to any true value, then the methods will
interpret inputs as floating-point numbers and will emit results containing
information about the number of milliseconds in the value.

For example, C<duration(1.021)> will return B<1 second and 21 milliseconds>
in this mode.

Millisecond mode is not enabled by default because this module sees heavy use
and existing users of it may be relying on its implicit truncation of non-integer
arguments.

=head1 FUNCTIONS

This module provides all the following functions, which are all exported
by default when you call C<use Time::Duration;>.

=over

=item duration($seconds)

=item duration($seconds, $precision)

Returns English text expressing the approximate time duration 
of abs($seconds), with at most S<C<$precision || 2>> expressed units.
(That is, duration($seconds) is the same as duration($seconds,2).)

For example, duration(120) or duration(-120) is "2 minutes".  And
duration(0) is "0 seconds".

The precision figure means that no more than that many units will
be used in expressing the time duration.  For example,
31,629,659 seconds is a duration of I<exactly>
1 year, 1 day, 2 hours, and 59 seconds (assuming 1 year = exactly
365 days, as we do assume in this module).  However, if you wanted
an approximation of this to at most two expressed (i.e., nonzero) units, it
would round it and truncate it to "1 year and 1 day".  Max of 3 expressed
units would get you "1 year, 1 day, and 2 hours".  Max of 4 expressed
units would get you "1 year, 1 day, 2 hours, and 59 seconds",
which happens to be exactly true.  Max of 5 (or more) expressed units
would get you the same, since there are only four nonzero units possible
in for that duration.

=item duration_exact($seconds)

Same as duration($seconds), except that the returned value is an exact
(unrounded) expression of $seconds.  For example, duration_exact(31629659)
returns "1 year, 1 day, 2 hours, and 59 seconds later",
which is I<exactly> true.

=item ago($seconds)

=item ago($seconds, $precision)

For a positive value of seconds, this prints the same as
C<duration($seconds, [$precision]) . S<' ago'>>.  For example,
ago(120) is "2 minutes ago".  For a negative value of seconds,
this prints the same as
C<duration($seconds, [$precision]) . S<' from now'>>.  For example,
ago(-120) is "2 minutes from now".  As a special case, ago(0)
returns "right now".

=item ago_exact($seconds)

Same as ago($seconds), except that the returned value is an exact
(unrounded) expression of $seconds.

=item from_now($seconds)

=item from_now($seconds, $precision)

=item from_now_exact($seconds)

The same as ago(-$seconds), ago(-$seconds, $precision), 
ago_exact(-$seconds).  For example, from_now(120) is "2 minutes from now".

=item later($seconds)

=item later($seconds, $precision)

For a positive value of seconds, this prints the same as
C<duration($seconds, [$precision]) . S<' later'>>.  For example,
ago(120) is "2 minutes later".  For a negative value of seconds,
this prints the same as
C<duration($seconds, [$precision]) . S<' earlier'>>.  For example,
later(-120) is "2 minutes earlier".  As a special case, later(0)
returns "right then".

=item later_exact($seconds)

Same as later($seconds), except that the returned value is an exact
(unrounded) expression of $seconds.

=item earlier($seconds)

=item earlier($seconds, $precision)

=item earlier_exact($seconds)

The same as later(-$seconds), later(-$seconds, $precision), 
later_exact(-$seconds).  For example, earlier(120) is "2 minutes earlier".

=item concise( I<function(> ... ) )

Concise takes the string output of one of the above functions and makes
it more concise.  For example, 
C<< ago(4567) >> returns "1 hour and 16 minutes ago", but
C<< concise(ago(4567)) >> returns "1h16m ago".

=back

=head1 I18N/L10N NOTES

Little of the internals of this module are English-specific.  See source
and/or contact me if you're interested in making a localized version
for some other language than English.

=head1 BACKSTORY

I wrote the basic C<ago()> function for use in Infobot
(C<http://www.infobot.org>), because I was tired of this sort of
response from the Purl Infobot:

me> Purl, seen Woozle?
  <Purl> Woozle was last seen on #perl 20 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes
  and 40 seconds ago, saying: Wuzzle!

I figured if it was 20 days ago, I don't care about the seconds.  So
once I had written C<ago()>, I abstracted the code a bit and got
all the other functions.

=head1 CAVEAT

This module calls a durational "year" an interval of exactly 365
days of exactly 24 hours each, with no provision for leap years or
monkey business with 23/25 hour days (much less leap seconds!).  But
since the main work of this module is approximation, that shouldn't
be a great problem for most purposes.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Time::Elapsed> - similarly converts durations to natural language,
but in addition to English also supports Danish, German, French, and Turkish.

L<Date::Interval|Date::Interval>, which is similarly named, but does
something rather different.

I<Star Trek: The Next Generation> (1987-1994), where the character
Data would express time durations like
"1 year, 20 days, 22 hours, 59 minutes, and 35 seconds"
instead of rounding to "1 year and 21 days".  This is because no-one
ever told him to use Time::Duration.

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER

Copyright 2013, Sean M. Burke C<sburke@cpan.org>; Avi Finkel,
C<avi@finkel.org>, all rights reserved.  This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

=head1 AUTHOR

Original author Sean M. Burke, C<sburke@cpan.org>.

Then maintained by Avi Finkel, C<avi@finkel.org>.

Currently maintained by Neil Bowers, C<neilb@cpan.org>.

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