diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d52c8e1..9a197d1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- Fixed a bug where the `milliseconds` function could return an incorrect value
+  for negative numbers.
+- The `duration` module gains the `Unit` type and the `approximate`, `minutes`
+  and `hours` functions.
+- The `calendar` module gains the `month_to_int` and `month_from_int`
+  functions.
+
 ## v1.1.0 - 2025-03-29
 
 - The `calendar` module gains the `month_to_string` function.
diff --git a/src/gleam/time/calendar.gleam b/src/gleam/time/calendar.gleam
index 3af2a25..22d29c3 100644
--- a/src/gleam/time/calendar.gleam
+++ b/src/gleam/time/calendar.gleam
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ pub const utc_offset = duration.empty
 /// For example, if you are making a web application that runs on a server you
 /// want _their_ computer's time zone, not yours.
 ///
+/// This is the _current local_ offset, not the current local time zone. This
+/// means that while it will result in the expected outcome for the current
+/// time, it may result in unexpected output if used with other timestamps. For
+/// example: a timestamp that would locally be during daylight savings time if
+/// is it not currently daylight savings time when this function is called.
+///
 pub fn local_offset() -> duration.Duration {
   duration.seconds(local_time_offset_seconds())
 }
@@ -115,3 +121,54 @@ pub fn month_to_string(month: Month) -> String {
     December -> "December"
   }
 }
+
+/// Returns the number for the month, where January is 1 and December is 12.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```gleam
+/// month_to_int(January)
+/// // -> 1
+/// ```
+pub fn month_to_int(month: Month) -> Int {
+  case month {
+    January -> 1
+    February -> 2
+    March -> 3
+    April -> 4
+    May -> 5
+    June -> 6
+    July -> 7
+    August -> 8
+    September -> 9
+    October -> 10
+    November -> 11
+    December -> 12
+  }
+}
+
+/// Returns the month for a given number, where January is 1 and December is 12.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```gleam
+/// month_from_int(1)
+/// // -> Ok(January)
+/// ```
+pub fn month_from_int(month: Int) -> Result(Month, Nil) {
+  case month {
+    1 -> Ok(January)
+    2 -> Ok(February)
+    3 -> Ok(March)
+    4 -> Ok(April)
+    5 -> Ok(May)
+    6 -> Ok(June)
+    7 -> Ok(July)
+    8 -> Ok(August)
+    9 -> Ok(September)
+    10 -> Ok(October)
+    11 -> Ok(November)
+    12 -> Ok(December)
+    _ -> Error(Nil)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/gleam/time/duration.gleam b/src/gleam/time/duration.gleam
index 0263381..5aae5ed 100644
--- a/src/gleam/time/duration.gleam
+++ b/src/gleam/time/duration.gleam
@@ -24,6 +24,82 @@ pub opaque type Duration {
   Duration(seconds: Int, nanoseconds: Int)
 }
 
+/// A division of time.
+///
+/// Note that not all months and years are the same length, so a reasonable
+/// average length is used by this module.
+///
+pub type Unit {
+  Nanosecond
+  /// 1000 nanoseconds.
+  Microsecond
+  /// 1000 microseconds.
+  Millisecond
+  /// 1000 microseconds.
+  Second
+  /// 60 seconds.
+  Minute
+  /// 60 minutes.
+  Hour
+  /// 24 hours.
+  Day
+  /// 7 days.
+  Week
+  /// About 30.4375 days. Real calendar months vary in length.
+  Month
+  /// About 365.25 days. Real calendar years vary in length.
+  Year
+}
+
+/// Convert a duration to a number of the largest number of a unit, serving as
+/// a rough description of the duration that a human can understand.
+///
+/// The size used for each unit are described in the documentation for the
+/// `Unit` type.
+///
+/// ```gleam
+/// seconds(125)
+/// |> approximate
+/// // -> #(2, Minute)
+/// ```
+///
+/// This function rounds _towards zero_. This means that if a duration is just
+/// short of 2 days then it will approximate to 1 day.
+///
+/// ```gleam
+/// hours(47)
+/// |> approximate
+/// // -> #(1, Day)
+/// ```
+///
+pub fn approximate(duration: Duration) -> #(Int, Unit) {
+  let Duration(seconds: s, nanoseconds: ns) = duration
+  let minute = 60
+  let hour = minute * 60
+  let day = hour * 24
+  let week = day * 7
+  let year = day * 365 + hour * 6
+  let month = year / 12
+  let microsecond = 1000
+  let millisecond = microsecond * 1000
+  case Nil {
+    _ if s < 0 -> {
+      let #(amount, unit) = Duration(-s, -ns) |> normalise |> approximate
+      #(-amount, unit)
+    }
+    _ if s >= year -> #(s / year, Year)
+    _ if s >= month -> #(s / month, Month)
+    _ if s >= week -> #(s / week, Week)
+    _ if s >= day -> #(s / day, Day)
+    _ if s >= hour -> #(s / hour, Hour)
+    _ if s >= minute -> #(s / minute, Minute)
+    _ if s > 0 -> #(s, Second)
+    _ if ns >= millisecond -> #(ns / millisecond, Millisecond)
+    _ if ns >= microsecond -> #(ns / microsecond, Microsecond)
+    _ -> #(ns, Nanosecond)
+  }
+}
+
 /// Ensure the duration is represented with `nanoseconds` being positive and
 /// less than 1 second.
 ///
@@ -162,6 +238,16 @@ pub fn seconds(amount: Int) -> Duration {
   Duration(amount, 0)
 }
 
+/// Create a duration of a number of minutes.
+pub fn minutes(amount: Int) -> Duration {
+  seconds(amount * 60)
+}
+
+/// Create a duration of a number of hours.
+pub fn hours(amount: Int) -> Duration {
+  seconds(amount * 60 * 60)
+}
+
 /// Create a duration of a number of milliseconds.
 pub fn milliseconds(amount: Int) -> Duration {
   let remainder = amount % 1000
@@ -169,6 +255,7 @@ pub fn milliseconds(amount: Int) -> Duration {
   let nanoseconds = remainder * 1_000_000
   let seconds = overflow / 1000
   Duration(seconds, nanoseconds)
+  |> normalise
 }
 
 /// Create a duration of a number of nanoseconds.
diff --git a/test/gleam/time/duration_test.gleam b/test/gleam/time/duration_test.gleam
index 641094f..ea17a21 100644
--- a/test/gleam/time/duration_test.gleam
+++ b/test/gleam/time/duration_test.gleam
@@ -361,3 +361,147 @@ pub fn difference_2_test() {
   duration.difference(duration.seconds(2), duration.milliseconds(3500))
   |> should.equal(duration.milliseconds(1500))
 }
+
+pub fn approximate_0_test() {
+  duration.minutes(10)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(10, duration.Minute))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_1_test() {
+  duration.seconds(30)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(30, duration.Second))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_2_test() {
+  duration.hours(23)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(23, duration.Hour))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_3_test() {
+  duration.hours(24)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Day))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_4_test() {
+  duration.hours(48)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(2, duration.Day))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_5_test() {
+  duration.hours(47)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Day))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_6_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 7)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Week))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_7_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 30)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(4, duration.Week))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_8_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 31)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Month))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_9_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 66)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(2, duration.Month))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_10_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 365)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(11, duration.Month))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_11_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 365 + 5)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(11, duration.Month))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_12_test() {
+  duration.hours(24 * 365 + 6)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Year))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_13_test() {
+  duration.hours(5 * 24 * 365 + 6)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(4, duration.Year))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_14_test() {
+  duration.hours(-5 * 24 * 365 + 6)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(-4, duration.Year))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_15_test() {
+  duration.milliseconds(1)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Millisecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_16_test() {
+  duration.milliseconds(-1)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(-1, duration.Millisecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_17_test() {
+  duration.milliseconds(999)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(999, duration.Millisecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_18_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(1000)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(1, duration.Microsecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_19_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(-1000)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(-1, duration.Microsecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_20_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(23_000)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(23, duration.Microsecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_21_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(999)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(999, duration.Nanosecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_22_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(-999)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(-999, duration.Nanosecond))
+}
+
+pub fn approximate_23_test() {
+  duration.nanoseconds(0)
+  |> duration.approximate
+  |> should.equal(#(0, duration.Nanosecond))
+}