Module:Human readable duration/sandbox

local p = {}

-- reproduced from Module:Convert local scale = { second = 1, seconds = 1, minute = 60, minutes = 60, hour = 3600, hours = 3600, day = 86400, days = 86400, month = 2629800, months = 2629800, year = 31557600, years = 31557600 }

function p.main(frame) local args = frame:getParent.args

local time = tonumber(args[1])

if time == nil or time < 0 then return "Human readable duration error: First argument must be a positive number (help) " end

if scale[args[2]] == nil then return "Human readable duration error: Second argument must be a valid time unit (help) " end

local timeseconds = tonumber(args[1]) * scale[args[2]]

if timeseconds < 59.75 then -- rounds to 59.5 seconds or less local converted = math.floor(timeseconds * 2 + 0.5) / 2 return converted .. " second" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") elseif timeseconds < 3585 then -- rounds to 59.5 minutes or less local converted = math.floor(timeseconds / scale.minute * 2 + 0.5) / 2 return converted .. " minute" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") elseif timeseconds < 258300 and timeseconds ~= 86400 and timeseconds ~= 172800 then -- rounds to 71.5 hours or less, excluding 24 and 48 hours exactly local converted = math.floor(timeseconds / scale.hour * 2 + 0.5) / 2 return converted .. " hour" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") elseif timeseconds < 4341600 then -- rounds to 50 days or less local converted = math.floor(timeseconds / scale.day * 2 + 0.5) / 2 return converted .. " day" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") elseif timeseconds < 48651300 then -- rounds to 18 months or less (rounds to nearest integer instead of 0.5) local converted = math.floor(timeseconds / scale.month + 0.5) return converted .. " month" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") else -- anything over 18 months rounds to nearest 0.5 years local converted = math.floor(timeseconds / scale.year * 2 + 0.5) / 2 return converted .. " year" .. (converted ~= 1 and "s" or "") end end

return p