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senseiwa
senseiwa

Reputation: 2499

Elegant time print in C++11

This is what I'd like to do in C++11: given two time points (such as a timing class) as std::chrono::steady_clock::now(), print their time difference elegantly, for instance:

1 day 4 hours 3 minutes 45 seconds

or

32 minutes 54 seconds 345 milliseconds

Please note that I'm not interested in simply using put_time, since I want to print starting from the most significant unit of time. I know, it's a solution to just print the difference, but it's not pretty: I'm looking for an elegant solution :)

Cheers!

Upvotes: 14

Views: 4157

Answers (3)

tclamb
tclamb

Reputation: 1469

Here's an easily extensible solution using variadic templates and recursion. It defines ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const duration&) for ease of use.

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <tuple>

using day_t = std::chrono::duration<long long, std::ratio<3600 * 24>>;

template<typename> struct duration_traits {};

#define DURATION_TRAITS(Duration, Singular, Plural) \
template<> struct duration_traits<Duration> { \
    constexpr static const char* singular = Singular; \
    constexpr static const char* plural = Plural; \
}

DURATION_TRAITS(std::chrono::milliseconds, "millisecond", "milliseconds");
DURATION_TRAITS(std::chrono::seconds, "second", "seconds");
DURATION_TRAITS(std::chrono::minutes, "minute", "minutes");
DURATION_TRAITS(std::chrono::hours, "hour", "hours");
DURATION_TRAITS(day_t, "day", "days");

using divisions = std::tuple<std::chrono::milliseconds, 
                             std::chrono::seconds, 
                             std::chrono::minutes, 
                             std::chrono::hours, 
                             day_t>;

namespace detail {
template<typename...> struct print_duration_impl_ {};

template<typename Head, typename... Tail>
struct print_duration_impl_<Head, Tail...> {
    template <typename Duration>
    static bool print(std::ostream& os, Duration& dur) {
        const auto started_printing = print_duration_impl_<Tail...>::print(os, dur);

        const auto n = std::chrono::duration_cast<Head>(dur);
        const auto count = n.count();

        if (count == 0) {
            return started_printing;
        }

        if (started_printing) {
            os << ' ';
        }

        using traits = duration_traits<Head>;
        os << count << ' ' << (count == 1 ? traits::singular : traits::plural);
        dur -= n;

        return true;
    }
};

template<>
struct print_duration_impl_<> {
    template <typename Duration>
    static bool print(std::ostream& os, Duration& dur) {
        return false;
    }
};

template<typename...> struct print_duration {};

template<typename... Args>
struct print_duration<std::tuple<Args...>> {
    template<typename Duration>
    static void print(std::ostream& os, Duration dur) {
        print_duration_impl_<Args...>::print(os, dur);
    }
};
}

template<typename Rep, typename Period>
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const std::chrono::duration<Rep, Period>& dur) {
    detail::print_duration<divisions>::print(os, dur);
    return os;
}

New durations are added by specializing duration_traits and inserting the type at the correct position in divisions. For example, adding a 10 ms jiffy type would involve:

using jiffy_t = std::chrono::duration<long long, std::centi>;
DURATION_TRAITS(jiffy_t, "jiffy", "jiffies");

using divisions = std::tuple<std::chrono::milliseconds, 
                             jiffy_t,
                             std::chrono::seconds, 
                             std::chrono::minutes, 
                             std::chrono::hours, 
                             day_t>;

Not bad for three lines of code!

Live example on ideone.com.

Upvotes: 4

cqdjyy01234
cqdjyy01234

Reputation: 1190

Duration can do arithmetic.

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

int main(){
    using namespace std::chrono;
    using day_t = duration<long, std::ratio<3600 * 24>>;
    auto start = system_clock::now();
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(seconds(1));
    auto end = system_clock::now();
    auto dur = end - start;
    auto d = duration_cast<day_t>(dur);
    auto h = duration_cast<hours>(dur -= d);
    auto m = duration_cast<minutes>(dur -= h);
    auto s = duration_cast<seconds>(dur -= m);
    auto ms = duration_cast<seconds>(dur -= s);
    std::cout << d.count() << " days, "
        << h.count() << " hours, "
        << m.count() << " minutes, "
        << s.count() << " seconds, "
        << ms.count() << " milliseconds\n";

    return 0;
}

Output:

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Possible duplicate: Extract year/month/day etc. from std::chrono::time_point in C++

Upvotes: 7

Simple
Simple

Reputation: 14390

template<typename T>
void print_time_diff(std::ostream& out, T prior, T latter)
{
    namespace sc = std::chrono;
    auto diff = sc::duration_cast<sc::milliseconds>(latter - prior).count();
    auto const msecs = diff % 1000;
    diff /= 1000;
    auto const secs = diff % 60;
    diff /= 60;
    auto const mins = diff % 60;
    diff /= 60;
    auto const hours = diff % 24;
    diff /= 24;
    auto const days = diff;

    bool printed_earlier = false;
    if (days >= 1) {
        printed_earlier = true;
        out << days << (1 != days ? " days" : " day") << ' ';
    }
    if (printed_earlier || hours >= 1) {
        printed_earlier = true;
        out << hours << (1 != hours ? " hours" : " hour") << ' ';
    }
    if (printed_earlier || mins >= 1) {
        printed_earlier = true;
        out << mins << (1 != mins ? " minutes" : " minute") << ' ';
    }
    if (printed_earlier || secs >= 1) {
        printed_earlier = true;
        out << secs << (1 != secs ? " seconds" : " second") << ' ';
    }
    if (printed_earlier || msecs >= 1) {
        printed_earlier = true;
        out << msecs << (1 != msecs ? " milliseconds" : " millisecond");
    }
}

http://ideone.com/bBNHQp

Upvotes: 3

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