ISO 8601 Durations
Today I learned that ISO 8601 includes a spec for durations as well as dates and times.
Normally when I think of ISO 8601 I think of dates (2024-05-30) or times (2024-05-30T19:54:14Z).
But it also includes a spec for durations! Super convenient to have a standardized way to represent this, and rails and javascript libraries are able to parse it.
Some examples:
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8 hours =>
PT8H -
3.5 hours =>
PT3H30M -
2 months, 1 day =>
P2M1D -
6 years, 5 months, 4 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes, 1 second =>
P6Y5M4DT3H2M1S