From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T06:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: File.mtime <=> DateTime.strptime()

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Hugh Sasse wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to compare how new a file is with the header obtained
>>> from Net::HTTP.head().  I use
>        [...]
>>> But I can't compare this with the results of File.mtime, because one
>>> is a DateTime, and one is a Time.  Time::strptime or Time::strftime
>> 
>> this might help...
>> 
>>  harp:~ > cat a.rb
>>  require 'alib'
>
> What is alib?

ara's lib ;-)  it's a holding place for all the utility methods i don't end up
putting anywhere else.  i also have inlined some small, but very useful code
developed by other people like satoru takabayashi's bsearch code for built-in
arrays.  it's a mix of useful stuff like

   - Util : lot's of time/string/process/filesystem/tmpdir-file/hash
     manipulation routines

   - Main : utilities for whipping out simple and configurable (via yaml file)
     main programs that support usage, logging, command line and option parsing
     in seconds

   - Bsearch : bsearch support for arrays

   - OrderedHash : name says it all

basically it's my personal stash of stuff i can't live without.  get it here

   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/alib/


> I think it depends on  whenther I can get both times into the same form.

to form those methods use is iso-8601 - should be a peice of cake.

cheers.

-a
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