Quote:Original post by tstrimp
If time range > 2 weeks: use weeks
It time range > 2 days: use days
If time range > 2 hours: use hours
etc...
Is a good idea. You could save yourself some if-statements by taking a base-10 logarithm when things get into the decimal range (below 1s).
A slightly easier-to-maintain, if less efficient, alternative would be to determine the weeks, days, hours etc. as separate numerical values, then combine the first one or two non-zero sub-units into the string. Depending on your ideal output, this may also require separate treatment in the sub-second range, so it may not be worth the effort.
- 0.372 and 0.373 have multiple lines
- The numbers are a bit too close to each other
- one doesn't need hours, minutes and seconds when viewing weeks
Since making a halfway intelligent scale is a generic problem I hope that someone can point me to material covering this topic.
thanks in advance.
