Greater precision formats

[lancecarlson]

Currently the format only displays the highest unit of time and chops off the rest. It would be great for it to include hours, minutes, seconds etc if you want and be customizable.

[vi]

Please review the proposed API for translation and additional features: https://github.com/vi/timeago/blob/9979380380f876bb0c22cbd68b60516e16743a5f/src/lib.rs

Is it going to the right direction?

[lancecarlson]

@vi Forgive me if I'm blind, but I can't really tell what is different from the previous API?

[vi]

Instead of convert function accepting Style enum there is Formatter struct employing builder pattern to configure various conversion options, including num_items to add precision.

Previous API is this: https://docs.rs/timeago/0.0.2/timeago/

[lancecarlson]

Ah so the basic premise is that you can build your own Style. Got it. Is it possible to easily specify more granular units? An example of how to do so would be awesome.

For example:

Just now
1 second ago
2 seconds ago
1 minute 30 seconds ago
2 minutes 29 seconds ago
etc.

[vi]

Do you mean "describe it down to seconds, but don't go to milliseconds", so it can be approx. 1 year, 7 months, 13 days, 3 hours, 56 seconds ago or "specify duration with precision up to 3 units", like in approx. 1 year, 7 months, 13 days.

Currently it is aimed at the second one, but I'm not sure which one is better/needed (or both?).

(My own use case which I had in mind while developing timeago is formt_5chars mode for exa).

[vi]

Released version 0.1.1, with precision controlled by num_items and min_unit