Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of olivine/dsl/types/duration

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May 21, 2020 10:11:50 PM (4 years ago)

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jonathan

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+= Duration (time) =
+Visit [wiki:olivine/dsl/types/core core types] for information on ''whole number''.
+
+The duration type is used for expressing intervals of time.  It is a unary post-fix operator, which means you specify any value that resolves to a `whole number` and then follow it by the name of a time unit.  The possible time units are:
+ * `milliseconds`
+ * `seconds`
+ * `minutes`
+ * `hours`
+ * `days`
+
+Here are some self-explanatory examples:
+{{{
+5 days
+4 minutes
+2 milliseconds
+}}}
+
+One oddity with this syntax is that you must specify the plural form even for a value of `1` for example:
+{{{
+1 seconds
+1 minutes
+1 days
+1 hours
+}}}
+
+Here is a more complex example involving an expression, this one expresses a duration of 6 hours:
+{{{
+(2 + 4) hours
+}}}
+
+== Partial Durations ==
+You can add durations together (like other arithmetic values) to express partial time durations, this one for example expresses 2 minutes and 35 seconds:
+
+{{{
+2 minutes + 35 seconds
+}}}