From bafb7f78c097bc3f815095050150476d35322c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Bayne <mdb@threerings.net>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 19:34:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added elapsedSeconds().

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@5764 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1
---
 src/java/com/threerings/util/TimeUtil.java | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/util/TimeUtil.java b/src/java/com/threerings/util/TimeUtil.java
index 779834b63..2674b4213 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/util/TimeUtil.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/util/TimeUtil.java
@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ public class TimeUtil
     // TODO: Weeks?, months?
     protected static final byte MAX_UNIT = DAY;
 
+    /**
+     * Returns (in seconds) the time elapsed between the supplied start and end timestamps (which
+     * must be in milliseconds). Partial seconds are truncated, not rounded.
+     */
+    public static int elapsedSeconds (long startStamp, long endStamp)
+    {
+        if (endStamp < startStamp) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("End time must be after start time " +
+                                               "[start=" + startStamp + ", end=" + endStamp + "]");
+        }
+        return (int)((endStamp - startStamp)/1000L);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Get a translatable string specifying the magnitude of the specified duration. Results will
      * be between "1 second" and "X hours", with all times rounded to the nearest unit. "0 units"