How to show time written out?

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With Rails, how do I write the time out, like this:

2 days 12 hours 5 minutes and 14 seconds

I feel like there's a Date helper that does it, but digging around the docs hasn't surfaced anything.

duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679266/can-ruby-print-out-time-difference-duration-readily — mikdiet, Apr 25 '12 at 11:46
That's called a timespan. [Check this out.](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html) — DOK, Apr 25 '12 at 11:46
And http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4274549/how-can-i-return-a-human-readable-time-range and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4136248/how-to-generate-a-human-readable-time-range-using-ruby-on-rails/4136485#4136485 and... — Dave Newton, Apr 25 '12 at 12:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:19

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answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:19

Dave Newton

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:23

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You can use DateTime.strftime. It works the same as the C strftime, so you can find documentation on the web.

DateTime.strftime("%j days %H hours %M minutes and %S seconds")

answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:23

Marlin Pierce

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:18

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If not you can be inspired by the source code of this helper

answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:18

sailor

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