Method code for $time.to_english()

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arg time, @reftime;
var times, words, x, ctime, mnths, month, year, days, out, lt, rrk;

// most of this was stolen from MOO (und ve are evil)
if (time < 1)
    return "0 seconds";
[(reftime ?= time())] = reftime;
words = ["year", "month", "day", "hour", "minute", "second"];
times = [];
for x in ([60, 60, 24]) {
    times = [time % x, @times];
    time = time / x;
}
mnths = 0;
lt = localtime(reftime);
month = lt[6];
if (lt[7] < 100)
    year = 1900 + lt[7];
else
    year = lt[7];
days = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31][month];
while (time >= days + (month == 2 && year % 4 == 0 && !(year % 400 in [100, 200, 300]))) {
    refresh();
    time -= days;
    mnths++;
    month++;
    if (month > 12) {
        year++;
        month = 1;
    }
}
times = [mnths / 12, mnths % 12, time, @times];
out = [];
for x in [1 .. 6] {
    if (times[x] > 0)
        out += [times[x] + " " + words[x] + (times[x] == 1 ? "" : "s")];
}
return out.to_english();

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// Created 27-Mar-1995 as a part of ColdCore, see: @help Credit