FiniteDuration human representation

[Lasering]

When debugging/inspecting code with timeouts/ellapsed times/etc using FiniteDuration seeing 2068493 seconds is not ergonomic, and in most cases unhelpful.

I suggest adding either of these things (or even everything):

• A method that returns the duration per unit of time (Map[TimeUnit, Double]). For the example above it would be:

  Map(
    TimeUnit.DAYS -> 23,
    TimeUnit.HOURS -> 22,
    TimeUnit.MINUTES -> 34,
    TimeUnit.SECONDS -> 53,
  )
  

• A method that returns a human readable string of the above. Keeping with the example it would return: 23 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, 53 seconds

• An approximate human readable string: About 24 days. This method could have some sort of max allowed error function.

[benhutchison]

I like this option, seems to hit the debug use case and remain precise:

A method that returns a human readable string of the above. Keeping with the example it would return: 23 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, 53 seconds

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 12:41 AM Simão Martins @.***> wrote:

When debugging/inspecting code with timeouts/ellapsed times/etc using FiniteDuration seeing 2068493 seconds is not ergonomic, and in most cases unhelpful.

I suggest adding either of these things (or even everything):

A method that returns the duration per unit of time (Map[TimeUnit, Double]). For the example above it would be:

Map( TimeUnit.DAYS -> 23, TimeUnit.HOURS -> 22, TimeUnit.MINUTES -> 34, TimeUnit.SECONDS -> 53, )

A method that returns a human readable string of the above. Keeping with the example it would return: 23 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, 53 seconds

An approximate human readable string: About 24 days. This method could have some sort of max allowed error function.

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[morgen-peschke]

A method that returns a human readable string of the above.

This seems the most useful. The Map can already be done fairly easily, and the conversion to human-readable text isn't something you want to have to bother with whenever you need this.

The approximate string wouldn't really be helpful for one of the most common places I could see using this: failing test case output.