Take leap years into account more seriously when calculating year distance [#6074 state:resolved]

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Aditya Sanghi 2010-11-29 20:45:43 +05:30
parent 4c755f977c
commit ae7d0d816d
2 changed files with 18 additions and 3 deletions

@ -94,9 +94,20 @@ def distance_of_time_in_words(from_time, to_time = 0, include_seconds = false, o
when 43200..86399 then locale.t :about_x_months, :count => 1
when 86400..525599 then locale.t :x_months, :count => (distance_in_minutes.to_f / 43200.0).round
else
distance_in_years = distance_in_minutes / 525600
minute_offset_for_leap_year = (distance_in_years / 4) * 1440
remainder = ((distance_in_minutes - minute_offset_for_leap_year) % 525600)
fyear = from_time.year
fyear += 1 if from_time.month >= 3
tyear = to_time.year
tyear -= 1 if to_time.month < 3
leap_years = (fyear > tyear) ? 0 : (fyear..tyear).count{|x| Date.leap?(x)}
minute_offset_for_leap_year = leap_years * 1440
# Discount the leap year days when calculating year distance.
# e.g. if there are 20 leap year days between 2 dates having the same day
# and month then the based on 365 days calculation
# the distance in years will come out to over 80 years when in written
# english it would read better as about 80 years.
minutes_with_offset = distance_in_minutes - minute_offset_for_leap_year
remainder = (minutes_with_offset % 525600)
distance_in_years = (minutes_with_offset / 525600)
if remainder < 131400
locale.t(:about_x_years, :count => distance_in_years)
elsif remainder < 394200

@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ def test_distance_in_words_with_dates
start_date = Date.new 1975, 1, 31
end_date = Date.new 1977, 1, 31
assert_equal("about 2 years", distance_of_time_in_words(start_date, end_date))
start_date = Date.new 1982, 12, 3
end_date = Date.new 2010, 11, 30
assert_equal("almost 28 years", distance_of_time_in_words(start_date, end_date))
end
def test_distance_in_words_with_integers