feat: Support use of Duration in `to_string`, ergonomic/perf improvem… #12841

Job	Run time
check-features	10m 41s
integration-test (ubuntu-latest)	2m 7s
test (ubuntu-latest)	3m 10s
integration-test (windows-latest)	6m 32s
test (windows-latest)	10m 8s
check-wasm	6m 25s
	39m 3s

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