I think the time_duration s will be equal, but the time_periods will be something like this:
2014-Jan-01 00:00:00 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:02.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:03 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:05.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:06 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:08.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:09 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:11.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:12 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:14.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:15 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:17.999999
2014-Jan-01 00:00:18 -> 2014-Jan-01 00:00:21

when calling the method like this

ptime p1 = dateTime::toPtime("2014-1-1 00:00:00");
ptime p2 = dateTime::toPtime("2014-1-1 00:00:21");

time_period tp(p1,p2);

list<time_period> l = dateTime::splitTimePeriod(tp, 7);
list<time_period>::iterator i = l.begin();
for(; i!= l.end(); ++i)
{
cout<<i->begin()<<" -> "<<i->end()<<endl;
}

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Leon Mlakar <leon@digiverse.si> wrote:
On 02/10/14 15:09, Pablo Madoery wrote:
Hi, I want to make a method which divides a time_period in N time periods,
something like this:

list<time_period> splitTimePeriod(time_period timePeriod, int n);

I actually have made it and although it seems to work it results very inefficient regarding the time it took to divide a large time_period.

The method I did is this:

list<time_period> splitTimePeriod(time_period timePeriod, int n)
{
double secsTime = dateTime::diffSeconds(timePeriod.end(), timePeriod.begin());

// tiempo en segundos de cada período de tiempo
double ti = secsTime / n;

list<time_period> timePeriods;

// tiempo de comienzo del primer período de tiempo
ptime tpBegin = timePeriod.begin();

// tiempo de fin del último período de tiempo
ptime tpLastEnd = timePeriod.end();

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
int tUnits = ti * time_duration::ticks_per_second();

// tiempo de comienzo del siguiente período de tiempo
ptime tpNextBegin = dateTime::increment(tpBegin, tUnits);

// tiempo de fin del período de tiempo
ptime tpEnd;

if (i == n - 1)
{
tpEnd = tpLastEnd;
}
else
{
tpEnd = dateTime::decrement(tpNextBegin, 1);

// guarda para evitar que por cuestiones
// de redondeo, el tiempo final de un período
// sea mayor que el pasado inicialmente
// como argumento de entrada
if (tpEnd > tpLastEnd)
{
tpEnd = tpLastEnd;
}
}

time_period p(tpBegin, tpEnd);

// se inserta período de tiempo en la lista
timePeriods.push_back(p);

// se actualiza el comienzo del siguiente período de tiempo
tpBegin = tpNextBegin;
}

return timePeriods;
}

Other methods I use are these:

double diffSeconds(const ptime &dateA, const ptime &dateB)
{
time_duration diff = dateA - dateB;
return diff.total_seconds();
}

ptime increment(const ptime &date, int n)
{
time_iterator it(date, dateTime::unit);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
++it;
}
return *it;
}

ptime decrement(const ptime &date, int n)
{
time_iterator it(date, dateTime::unit);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
--it;
}
return *it;
}

const time_duration unit = microseconds(1);

#################################################
The question is:  is there a better way to accomplish this?

If you are splitting a time period into N periods of equal duration, wouldn't it be enough to return just one time period? The other n-1 are going to be equal, except perhaps for the last.

Leon


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