From be2a4d84fd9be0de8c2d6db0f1f2b5b8619cc278 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Grundke <maximiliangrundke@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:43:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Create TimeHelper module

---
 app/helpers/time_helper.rb | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 app/helpers/time_helper.rb

diff --git a/app/helpers/time_helper.rb b/app/helpers/time_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed05ede5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/helpers/time_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+module TimeHelper
+
+  # convert timestamps ('12:34:56.789') to seconds
+  def time_to_f(timestamp)
+    unless timestamp.nil?
+      timestamp = timestamp.split(':')
+      return timestamp[0].to_i * 60 * 60 + timestamp[1].to_i * 60 + timestamp[2].to_f
+    end
+    nil
+  end
+
+end