A Ruby function for determining the number of whole years elapsed between two `Time` objects. No dependencies. MIT License.
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# Determine the number of whole years elapsed between two [Time] objects. | |
# It is assumed that the provided [Time] objects are in the same time-zone | |
# and part of a single continuous chronology. | |
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# @param time1 [Time] | |
# @param time2 [Time] | |
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# @return [Integer] | |
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# Copyright 2018 Ry Biesemeyer (@yaauie) | |
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def years_elapsed(time1, time2) | |
fail(ArgumentError, "Invalid `time1` value `#{time1.inspect}` (expected a `Time` object)") unless time1.kind_of?(Time) | |
fail(ArgumentError, "Invalid `time2` value `#{time1.inspect}` (expected a `Time` object)") unless time2.kind_of?(Time) | |
# normalize order | |
time1, time2 = time2, time1 if time1 > time2 | |
years = time2.year - time1.year | |
[:month,:day,:hour,:min,:sec,:subsec].each do |precision| | |
case (time2.send(precision) - time1.send(precision)) | |
when 1 then return years | |
when -1 then return years -1 | |
end | |
end | |
return years | |
end |
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