Time intervals

[tanriol]

Make approximate time displays more precise

[ancestorak]

Thanks!

1. I intended the RelativeDate object to be similar to the standard Date object in terms of its API. Therefore, I would prefer to keep the delta* getters and have intervals use getters as well (e.g. RelativeDate.intervalDays etc.)

2. The terms delta and interval aren't very clear because it's hard to figure out the difference without reading the implementation, but I can't think of anything better myself. Let's at least add a comment on top of the class that explains the difference.

3. By the way, please don't overwrite the original function arguments like you did with aDivisor. Instead, define a new variable, called divisor for example. Brief uses a convention that variables prefixed with the letter "a" always represent the original function arguments. This doesn't matter here because we're gonna use getters anyway, it's just a note for the future.

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[tanriol]

1. I intended the RelativeDate object to be similar to the standard Date object in terms of its API. Therefore, I would prefer to keep the delta* getters and have intervals use getters as well (e.g. RelativeDate.intervalDays etc.)

The previous time you preferred not to have an extra set of accessor functions. OK, if now you wish so...

2. The terms delta and interval aren't very clear because it's hard to figure out the difference without reading the implementation, but I can't think of anything better myself. Let's at least add a comment on top of the class that explains the difference.

What about deltaHours and deltaHourSteps?

[ancestorak]

The previous time you preferred not to have an extra set of accessor functions. OK, if now you wish so...

I thought it would look better but now I see I was wrong. Sorry to keep changing my mind.

What about deltaHours and deltaHourSteps?

I assume the former corresponds to the "interval" and the latter to "delta"? Sounds good!

[hurda]

Any ETA on this? I've set the update-interval to 3 hours, and it's always a bit weird to see "Feeds were last updated 3 hours ago" in the tooltip.

[ancestorak]

@tanriol I can finish it up this week if you don't have the time.

[tanriol]

This should fix #31. By the way, what about releasing 2.0b1? The alpha is pretty broken.

[tanriol]

@ancestorak, is this ok to be merged?

[ancestorak]

Yes, let's merge it.

By the way, I'm back and I'll be devoting time to Brief again.