[ruby-core:92859] [Ruby trunk Feature#15879] Proposal: Time#to_i accepts :unit keyword

Issue #15879 has been updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada).


By analogy from `Time#round`, which takes as an argument an integer representing the precision in decimal places, and from `String#to_i`, which takes an integer, I think that passing an integer representing the number of decimal places would fit better. Something like this:

```ruby
{
  event_id: id,
  name: name,
  tracked_at: tracked_at.to_i(3),
  tracked_at_micro: tracked_at.to_i(6)
}
```

Default would be `0`.

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Feature #15879: Proposal: Time#to_i accepts :unit keyword
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15879#change-78240

* Author: joker1007 (Tomohiro Hashidate)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I often need Unix time as microseconds or nanoseconds to serialize for other language environments.
For example, Java uses milliseconds(nanoseconds) basically.

In such a situation, current Ruby code is like below.

``` ruby
{
  event_id: id,
  name: name,
  tracked_at: (tracked_at.to_f * 1000).round,
  tracked_at_micro: (tracked_at * 1000000 + tracked_at.usec)
}
```

But this example is noisy. And it is easy to make a mistake.
I want to write like below.

```ruby
{
  event_id: id,
  name: name,
  tracked_at: tracked_at.to_i(unit: :milli),
  tracked_at_micro: tracked_at.to_i(unit: :micro)
}

# or 

{
  event_id: id,
  name: name,
  tracked_at: tracked_at.as_msec,
  tracked_at_micro: tracked_at.as_usec
}
```




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