Class: TimePeriod

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • queries
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--TimePeriod

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Magnitude-Time

Version:

rev: 1.1 date: 2018/05/10 19:03:11

user: cg

file: TimePeriod.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

This class represents time periods defined by start and endtime.
It will be as a representation of ISO8601 timeperiods.

Class protocol:

 startTime: startTimeArg endTime: endTimeArg

Instance protocol:

 endTime

 endTime: aTimeOrDate

 startTime

 startTime: aTimeOrDate

 startTime: startTimeArg endTime: endTimeArg

 duration

return the difference between end- and starttime

usage example(s):

(TimePeriod startTime:(Date today) endTime:(Date tomorrow)) duration -> 1d (TimePeriod startTime:(Time now) endTime:(Date tomorrow)) duration -> rest duration till tomorrow (TimePeriod startTime:(Timestamp now) endTime:(Timestamp fromString:'2050-01-01')) duration

Examples:

     |p|
     p := TimePeriod startTime:(Date today) endTime:(Date tomorrow).
     p duration 

     |p|
     p := TimePeriod startTime:(Time now) endTime:(Date tomorrow).
     p duration 

     |p|
     p := TimePeriod startTime:(Timestamp now) endTime:(Timestamp fromString:'2050-01-01').
     p duration