Oh cool - I missed that. I was testing on 1.13. A reason to upgrade this 
service. :)

On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 12:40:42 PM UTC Andrey Yugai wrote:

> I think larger units were added since 1.14, but if you cannot upgrade for 
> some reason, Timex has a nice API: `Timex.shift(dt, months: 1, days: 4.5, 
> minutes: -30, seconds: 50)`
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> On 12 Dec 2022, 20:21, Daniel Kukuła < danie...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi - this bothers me because every time when I wan't to add longer period 
> of time I need to manually calculate the number instead of use something 
> built in or use erlang.
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> `DateTime.add(DateTime.utc_now(), :timer.hours(-30 * 24), :millisecond)` .
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> Erlang has up to 1hour shortcut functions - but 1day still is 24h and 
> everytime let's say we wan't to expire some old data from database then 
> DateTime.add(-30, :days) is still plenty good for most of the cases.
> In python timedelta you can specify also weeks:
> ```
> from datetime import timedelta delta = timedelta( days=50, seconds=27, 
> microseconds=10, milliseconds=29000, minutes=5, hours=8, weeks=2 )
> ```
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