Add: Time Conversion Function (TheAlgorithms#10749)

* Add: Time Conversion Function

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* Update conversions/time_conversions.py

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DIRECTORY.md

@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@
   * [Roman Numerals](conversions/roman_numerals.py)
   * [Speed Conversions](conversions/speed_conversions.py)
   * [Temperature Conversions](conversions/temperature_conversions.py)
+  * [Time Conversions](conversions/time_conversions.py)
   * [Volume Conversions](conversions/volume_conversions.py)
   * [Weight Conversion](conversions/weight_conversion.py)
 

conversions/time_conversions.py

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+"""
+A unit of time is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or
+expressing duration.  The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI),
+and by extension most of the Western world, is the second, defined as about 9 billion
+oscillations of the caesium atom.
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_time
+"""
+
+time_chart: dict[str, float] = {
+    "seconds": 1.0,
+    "minutes": 60.0,  # 1 minute = 60 sec
+    "hours": 3600.0,  # 1 hour = 60 minutes = 3600 seconds
+    "days": 86400.0,  # 1 day = 24 hours = 1440 min = 86400 sec
+    "weeks": 604800.0,  # 1 week=7d=168hr=10080min = 604800 sec
+    "months": 2629800.0,  # Approximate value for a month in seconds
+    "years": 31557600.0,  # Approximate value for a year in seconds
+}
+
+time_chart_inverse: dict[str, float] = {
+    key: 1 / value for key, value in time_chart.items()
+}
+
+
+def convert_time(time_value: float, unit_from: str, unit_to: str) -> float:
+    """
+    Convert time from one unit to another using the time_chart above.
+
+    >>> convert_time(3600, "seconds", "hours")
+    1.0
+    >>> convert_time(3500, "Seconds", "Hours")
+    0.972
+    >>> convert_time(1, "DaYs", "hours")
+    24.0
+    >>> convert_time(120, "minutes", "SeCoNdS")
+    7200.0
+    >>> convert_time(2, "WEEKS", "days")
+    14.0
+    >>> convert_time(0.5, "hours", "MINUTES")
+    30.0
+    >>> convert_time(-3600, "seconds", "hours")
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+    ValueError: 'time_value' must be a non-negative number.
+    >>> convert_time("Hello", "hours", "minutes")
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+    ValueError: 'time_value' must be a non-negative number.
+    >>> convert_time([0, 1, 2], "weeks", "days")
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+    ValueError: 'time_value' must be a non-negative number.
+    >>> convert_time(1, "cool", "century")  # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+    ValueError: Invalid unit cool is not in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, ...
+    >>> convert_time(1, "seconds", "hot")  # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+    ValueError: Invalid unit hot is not in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, ...
+    """
+    if not isinstance(time_value, (int, float)) or time_value < 0:
+        msg = "'time_value' must be a non-negative number."
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+
+    unit_from = unit_from.lower()
+    unit_to = unit_to.lower()
+    if unit_from not in time_chart or unit_to not in time_chart:
+        invalid_unit = unit_from if unit_from not in time_chart else unit_to
+        msg = f"Invalid unit {invalid_unit} is not in {', '.join(time_chart)}."
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+
+    return round(
+        time_value * time_chart[unit_from] * time_chart_inverse[unit_to],
+        3,
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import doctest
+
+    doctest.testmod()
+    print(f"{convert_time(3600,'seconds', 'hours') = :,}")
+    print(f"{convert_time(360, 'days', 'months') = :,}")
+    print(f"{convert_time(360, 'months', 'years') = :,}")
+    print(f"{convert_time(1, 'years', 'seconds') = :,}")