advance(options)
public
Uses <a href="/rails/Date">Date</a> to provide
precise Time calculations for years, months, and
days. The options parameter takes a hash with any of these keys:
:years, :months, :weeks, :days,
:hours, :minutes, :seconds.
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def advance(options)
unless options[:weeks].nil?
options[:weeks], partial_weeks = options[:weeks].divmod(1)
options[:days] = (options[:days] || 0) + 7 * partial_weeks
end
unless options[:days].nil?
options[:days], partial_days = options[:days].divmod(1)
options[:hours] = (options[:hours] || 0) + 24 * partial_days
end
d = to_date.advance(options)
time_advanced_by_date = change(:year => d.year, :month => d.month, :day => d.day)
seconds_to_advance = (options[:seconds] || 0) + (options[:minutes] || 0) * 60 + (options[:hours] || 0) * 3600
seconds_to_advance == 0 ? time_advanced_by_date : time_advanced_by_date.since(seconds_to_advance)
end