Tracking Issue for `duration_abs_diff`

[elomatreb]

Feature gate: #![feature(duration_abs_diff)]

This is a tracking issue for the Duration::abs_diff method.

ACP: rust-lang/libs-team#291

I haven't contributed to Rust before so I hope this is the right approach.

Public API

impl Duration {
    pub const fn abs_diff(self, other: Duration) -> Duration;
}

Steps / History

• Implementation: Add Duration::abs_diff #117619
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR: Stabilize duration_abs_diff #127128

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩

[elomatreb]

Stabilization report

Implementation history

• Implementation was added in Add Duration::abs_diff #117619, no changes since.

API summary

Very simple:

impl Duration {
    pub fn abs_diff(self, other: Duration) -> Duration;
}

Experience report

I've been using this method in a private project with nightly since it was initially merged. Not immediately aware of any public uses, but since it's fairly niche that doesn't surprise me a lot.

[ChrisDenton]

@rust-lang/libs-api would anyone be willing to start an fcp in light of the report above?

[BurntSushi]

@rfcbot fcp merge

[rfcbot]

Team member @BurntSushi has proposed to merge this. The next step is review by the rest of the tagged team members:

• @Amanieu
• @BurntSushi
• @dtolnay
• @joshtriplett
• @m-ou-se

No concerns currently listed.

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