1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rbot/utils.rb b/lib/rbot/utils.rb
index 4c474ae4..a1a8c484 100644
--- a/lib/rbot/utils.rb
+++ b/lib/rbot/utils.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ module Irc
   # miscellaneous useful functions
   module Utils
 
+    # turn a number of seconds into a human readable string, e.g
+    # 2 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 10 seconds
+    def Utils.secs_to_string(secs)
+      ret = ""
+      days = (secs / (60 * 60 * 24)).to_i
+      secs = secs % (60 * 60 * 24)
+      hours = (secs / (60 * 60)).to_i
+      secs = (secs % (60 * 60))
+      mins = (secs / 60).to_i
+      secs = (secs % 60).to_i
+      ret += "#{days} days, " if days > 0
+      ret += "#{hours} hours, " if hours > 0 || days > 0
+      ret += "#{mins} minutes and " if mins > 0 || hours > 0 || days > 0
+      ret += "#{secs} seconds"
+      return ret
+    end
+
+
     def Utils.safe_exec(command, *args)
       IO.popen("-") {|p|
         if(p)