Re: Date.from_time

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Sinclair [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:59 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Date.from_time
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> If I submit a patch to define Date.from_time, will it be 
> accepted?  Is there a preferred name?

Well, the Date class has a parse() method.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem able to parse stringified Time objects.  I think the ideal solution
is to make it understand so that this would be legal:

require "date"
t = Time.now
d = Date.new(Date.parse(t.to_s)[0..2]) # or whatever

That, or simply have the Date constructor understand Time objects and/or
stringified Time objects:

d = Date.new(t) # It would be nice if this DWIM.

I vote for this over adding a new method.

Just my .02.

Dan