From: Samuel Kilchenmann <skilchen@...>
Date: 2001-05-04T13:41:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14617] Re: Question about Date

"Eric Jacoboni" <jaco@teaser.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:863damdo06.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org...
>
> In Perl, i'm using Delta_DHMS to obtain the number of days of my
> poor existence. Then i multiply by 86400, like this:
>
> =-=-=-=
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use Date::Calc qw/Delta_DHMS/;
>
> my @now = localtime;
> my @diff = Delta_DHMS(1960,5,21,0,0,0, $now[5] + 1900,
>                       $now[4] + 1, $now[3], $now[2], $now[1], $now[0]);
>
here you are including hour, minute, second of the current time in the
difference.
either change that line to
                      $now[4] + 1, $now[3], 0, 0, 0);

>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
>
> require "date2"
>
> my_birthdate = Date.new(1960, 05, 21)

or include the HMS part in the ruby variant:
t = Time.new()
s = t.hour * 3600 + t.min * 60 + t.sec

> printf "葡ic Jacoboni, born %d seconds ago.\n", \
>                            (Date.today() - my_birthdate) * 86400
                            (Date.today() - my_birthdate) * 86400 + s

then you might get the same results from both scripts