Request to add formatInterval to klocale

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 15:42, John Tapsell wrote:
> What about 1.01 hours  etc?  Can that be translated from   "%1 hours"
> okay?

What is 1.01 hours? What is the use case for displaying such an amount 
of time? I'm beginning to think that it's not worth putting something 
like this into the core libraries because every developer will need 
something slightly different. I for one would display 3636000 
milliseconds as "1 hour and 36 seconds" or "60 minutes and 36 seconds" 
or "60.6 minutes" or "1:00:36" but never as "1.01 hours". 0.01 hours 
means nothing to me. Only after converting it to seconds I can actually 
work with it.

So, what's your use case for displaying an amount of time as a decimal 
number?

You should probably ask the usability people about the best way to 
display a fractional amount of time.

Regards,
Ingo
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