Question

Is there any ActionScript class which represents “durations of time”, similar to the TimeDelta class in Python?

Edit: Thanks for the responses. I should clarify a bit, though: I want be able to ask questions like “how many weeks are between date0 and date1” or “let x represent “one day”. What is date2 + x?”

I know I can do all this by representing dates as timestamps… But I’m hoping to find something nicer.

Answer 1

I posted a full AS3 port of the .NET TimeSpan class on this question, which sounds exactly like what you need.

// 5 days from new
var ts : TimeSpan = TimeSpan.fromDays(5);
var now : Date = new Date();
var fiveDaysTime : Date = ts.add(now);

// Diff between dates
var d1 : Date = new Date(2009, 1, 1);
var d2 : Date = new Date(2009, 1, 6);
var ts : TimeSpan = TimeSpan.fromDates(d1, d2);