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I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

timedelta marks time in days, seconds, and microseconds. It doesn't take leap years into account because the concept of years is irrelevant to timedelta. If you need to account for leap years, you need a different API.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

365.25*10 would at least get you closer.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

You can subtract two dates and get the exact time difference.