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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb
index 5a64fc52cc..4c0d1197fe 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb
@@ -56,6 +56,30 @@ module ActiveSupport
@value.to_s
end
+ # Returns the number of seconds that this Duration represents.
+ #
+ # 1.minute.to_i # => 60
+ # 1.hour.to_i # => 3600
+ # 1.day.to_i # => 86400
+ #
+ # Note that this conversion makes some assumptions about the
+ # duration of some periods, e.g. months are always 30 days
+ # and years are 365.25 days:
+ #
+ # # equivalent to 30.days.to_i
+ # 1.month.to_i # => 2592000
+ #
+ # # equivalent to 365.25.days.to_i
+ # 1.year.to_i # => 31557600
+ #
+ # In such cases, Ruby's core
+ # Date[http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html] and
+ # Time[http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/time/rdoc/Time.html] should be used for precision
+ # date and time arithmetic.
+ def to_i
+ @value.to_i
+ end
+
# Returns +true+ if +other+ is also a Duration instance, which has the
# same parts as this one.
def eql?(other)