--- /dev/null
+package PVE::Format;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use POSIX qw(strftime);
+use PVE::JSONSchema;
+
+use base 'Exporter';
+our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
+render_timestamp
+render_timestamp_gmt
+render_duration
+render_fraction_as_percentage
+render_bytes
+);
+
+sub render_timestamp {
+ my ($epoch) = @_;
+
+ # ISO 8601 date format
+ return strftime("%F %H:%M:%S", localtime($epoch));
+}
+
+sub render_timestamp_gmt {
+ my ($epoch) = @_;
+
+ # ISO 8601 date format, standard Greenwich time zone
+ return strftime("%F %H:%M:%S", gmtime($epoch));
+}
+
+sub render_duration {
+ my ($duration_in_seconds) = @_;
+
+ my $text = '';
+ my $rest = $duration_in_seconds;
+
+ my $step = sub {
+ my ($unit, $unitlength) = @_;
+
+ if ((my $v = int($rest/$unitlength)) > 0) {
+ $text .= " " if length($text);
+ $text .= "${v}${unit}";
+ $rest -= $v * $unitlength;
+ }
+ };
+
+ $step->('w', 7*24*3600);
+ $step->('d', 24*3600);
+ $step->('h', 3600);
+ $step->('m', 60);
+ $step->('s', 1);
+
+ return $text;
+}
+
+sub render_fraction_as_percentage {
+ my ($fraction) = @_;
+
+ return sprintf("%.2f%%", $fraction*100);
+}
+
+sub render_bytes {
+ my ($value, $precision) = @_;
+
+ my @units = qw(B KiB MiB GiB TiB PiB);
+
+ my $max_unit = 0;
+ if ($value > 1023) {
+ $max_unit = int(log($value)/log(1024));
+ $value /= 1024**($max_unit);
+ }
+ my $unit = $units[$max_unit];
+ return sprintf "%." . ($precision || 2) . "f $unit", $value;
+}
+
+1;