Reason for DateTime not includes larger units like minutes, hours, days?

[Daniel Kukuła]

Hi - this bothers me because every time when I wan't to add longer period of time I need to manually calculate the number instead of use something built in or use erlang.

`DateTime.add(DateTime.utc_now(), :timer.hours(-30 * 24), :millisecond)` .

Erlang has up to 1hour shortcut functions - but 1day still is 24h and everytime let's say we wan't to expire some old data from database then DateTime.add(-30, :days) is still plenty good for most of the cases.
In python timedelta you can specify also weeks:
```
from datetime import timedelta delta = timedelta( days=50, seconds=27, microseconds=10, milliseconds=29000, minutes=5, hours=8, weeks=2 )
```

[Andrey Yugai]

I think larger units were added since 1.14, but if you cannot upgrade for some reason, Timex has a nice API: `Timex.shift(dt, months: 1, days: 4.5, minutes: -30, seconds: 50)`

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[Daniel Kukuła]

Oh cool - I missed that. I was testing on 1.13. A reason to upgrade this service. :)