[Feature] Numeric#milliseconds to complement #minutes, #hours, #days, etc.

[Tim Rogers]

ActiveSupport monkeypatches `Numeric` to add time-related functionality (see activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb), giving you some nice sugar for working with time, e.g.:

1.second
2.hours
3.days
4.months
5.years

At the moment, there's an `#in_milliseconds` method which converts a number of seconds to a number of milliseconds (e.g. `5.in_milliseconds == 5000`).

However, there isn't a `#milliseconds` monkeypatch. I can imagine this being useful for cases like `sleep(5.milliseconds)` or `expect(racing_car.last_repaired_at).to be_within(5.milliseconds).of(Time.zone.now)`.

I'd be willing to build this; it should be a small change.

What do people think?

[Jeremy Daer]

I’d use this. 👍

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[Uysim Ty]

I support this

[Greg Navis]

Sounds good!

[Alberto Almagro]

That would be great Tim!

[Jake Niemiec]

This might also be useful in the sense that JavaScript Date() timestamps are based on a time value that is milliseconds since the unix epoch. (as opposed to seconds for server-side timestamps)

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