Possible to have durations displayed in selected unit?

[Moonbase59]

Sometimes one wishes to add up durations, or simply display them in a specified unit, like minutes or hours.

Let’s take this example:

---
start: 2021-04-24T14:00
end: 2021-04-24T15:30
---

### Test duration

`= this.end - this.start`
`= (this.end - this.start).minutes`

It will display:

1 hours, 30 minutes
30

So if I specify .minutes it’ll only display the minutes part of the duration (30), not it’s actual length in minutes (90).

Any easy way to do this?

[SkepticMystic]

I wouldn't call it "easy" but this might work for now: = ((this.end - this.start).hours * 60) + (this.end - this.start).minutes

[blacksmithgu]

I will add a function to do this.

[Moonbase59]

@SkepticMystic This wouldn’t work in all situations, just think of DST switching … and it wouldn’t just be hours, but weeks, months and years, too, you’d have to add.

Best bet might be to use moment.js internally, I think.

[SkepticMystic]

@Moonbase59 for sure, dedicated functionality for this would be way better

[TomasLinhart]

I will add a function to do this.

@blacksmithgu Is it still something you want to add? I would love to have it.