Automatically promote minutes to hours to days about clj-time

[seancorfield]

Not quite sure what you have in mind - can you provide some examples?

[dogenpunk]

What I was thinking was something along these lines:

(plus (minutes 50) (minutes 10)) ;; #<Hours PT1H>
(plus (hours 26) (hours 22)) ;; #<Days P2D>

I haven't thought about it a whole lot, but I thought it might be a nice feature, and somewhat clojure-esque. It might be better to have separate functions that promote time intervals rather than make it the default behavior.

[seancorfield]

I'm in two minds. For the most part, the units should be opaque I think, unless you convert them to a period / interval, so I'm not sure that normalizing them proactively is a good idea. Does converting to a period / interval not do enough of want you would want here?

[michaelklishin]

I'm afraid it would complicate things a lot and possibly break compatibility with Joda Time in subtle ways.