easy_time

A class that wraps the Time class and makes it easy to work with most known time values, including various time strings, automatically converting them to Time values, and perform tolerant comparisons. Several time classes, and the String class, are extended with the ".easy_time" method to perform an auto-conversion. A tolerant comparison allows for times from differing systems to be compared, even when the systems are out of sync, using the relationship operators and methods like "newer?", "older?", "same?" and "between?". A tolerant comparison for equality is where the difference of two values is less than the tolerance value (1 minute by default). The tolerance can be configured, even set to zero. Finally, all of the Time class and instance methods are available on the EasyTime class and instances.