Re: Date.from_time

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> Folks,
>
> At the moment, I don't see an easy way to create a Date or DateTime
> object given a Time object.  That's something I need to do at the
> moment, and it seems like it should be easy.

I think it may be possible through strftime, strptime...

STRFTIME_FORMAT = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT"

EPOCH = Time.at(0).gmtime.strftime(STRFTIME_FORMAT)
def something(since=EPOCH)
  since_t = DateTime.strptime(since, STRFTIME_FORMAT)
  ...
end

(This is using the time format for HTTP/1.1, which seems to be RFC
1123).  I don't know what can be done about (milli|micro)second
accuracy.

>
> If I submit a patch to define Date.from_time, will it be accepted?  Is
> there a preferred name?
>
> Gavin
>
        Hugh