FluentTime: a fluent interface in C# for working with dates and times

After working fairly late last night I was too wound up to go to sleep when I got home. Something possessed me to start creating a little C# library providing a fluent interface for working with DateTimes, DateTimeOffsets, and TimeSpans inspired by ActiveSupport's active_support/core_ext/numeric/time and related extensions.

After about 3.Hours(30.Minutes()) the straightforward part had come together. You can do stuff like this with it:

var toothBrushingTime = 10.Minutes().Before(bedTime);
var lightsOutForReal = 1.Hour(30.Minutes()).After(bedTime);
...
Assert.That(actual, Is.LessThan(50.Milliseconds().After(expected)));

These built in .NET types are pretty easy to work with and made the implementation very easy (except for the bit where I discovered that TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds takes a double but only has whole-millisecond precision).

This morning I put it up on Github. You can find FluentTime here.

The one more complex thing I'd still like to add is a variable-length variation on TimeSpan for handling units like months and years. I'm interested to see how clean I can keep things when my type will only take on a specific value based on the date-time value it's being added to or subtracted from. That ought to be a good opportunity for exploring operator overloading. (Unsurprisingly that hasn't come up in my day job just yet.)