From: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T21:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: millisec in strin representation of Time


Hi folks,

Did I miss something or did someone actually answer this part of the
question?

> Is there a way to use Time#strftime to generate a string that contains
> milliseconds,

I found myself hitting this same thing on Saturday (kinda ironic that
was when the original post was sent to the list).  What I want to do is
something similar to the Java SimpleDateFormat where you can do
something like:  yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS z

I looked at the implementation of strftime in the ruby library and
there's some unused letters for %, however what I want is to be able to
specify the precision at the same time.  I had considered hacking the
implementation of strftime and sending it to the list, but I hadn't
gotten there yet.  I don't want to have to just do something like:

 "%d" % (time.usec / (10*precision))

if I can avoid it.  Before I go off and implement something silly, does
anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

ast

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 21:21, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Kirk Haines wrote:
> ...
> > class Time
> >   class << Time
> >     alias :parse_old :parse
> >     def parse(date, now=Time.now)
> >       t = parse_old(date,now)
> >       d = Date._parse(date)
> >       t += d[:sec_fraction].to_f if d.has_key? :sec_fraction
>         t
> >     end
> >   end
> > end
> 
> If the _date_ arg doesn't have fractional seconds, then parse still
> needs to return t.

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