From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-02-22T22:44:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11310] Re: Time without seconds...

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, DaVinci wrote:

>  Hi.
> 
>  I want to get a Time instance without seconds (round minutes). I have
>  probed next class:
> 
>  	class MyTime < Time
> 		def initialize
> 			super
> 			self -= sec
> 		end
> 	end
> 
>  but it doesn't work. I get error:
> 
>  	Can't change the value of self
> 
>  Is any form of doing this?.

You could add a method to class Time:

  class Time
    def round_to_m
      self - sec
    end
  end

  t = Time.new
  p t
  p t.round_to_m


David

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