Anyone got a date math routine?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Get the impression I'm coding this week...?

Before I write it myself, does anyone have a fuzzy age routine?  I need
something that can take 2 dates and 2 times, and subtract one from the
other, and then round, so that what I get is "32m", "6h", "3d", "2w",
"4M", etc.  That is, figure out what the largest unit of time is that
the difference can be represented in as a clipped integer, and return
that as a 3 character string.

I have a design for such a routine in my head, but I figure if anyone's
already plowed the ground...

If not, I'll post it here when I'm done with it.

Cheers,
-- jr 'why yes, I am writing a ticket tracking system :-)' a
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