From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2005-11-14T01:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting between Time and DateTime

Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> writes:

> On Saturday 12 November 2005 10:54 am, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason for why we can't have similar methods as part of the
>> official DateTime and Time classes?
>>
>> Or is there already some sort of mechanism for this that I have
>> overlooked?
>
> You have not overlooked anything.

Oh well ... (sigh)

And thanks.

In your methods below, I see "rescue" without a formal "begin/end"
block.  I've never seen that construct before.  I'm guessing that single
line statements don't need begin/end, correct?


> In my standard set of extensions are these:
>
> class Time
>         def to_date
>                 Date.new(year, month, day)
>                 rescue NameError
>                 nil
>         end
>
>         def to_datetime
>                 DateTime.new(year, month, day, hour, min, sec)
>                 rescue NameError
>                 nil
>         end
> end
>
> class DateTime
>         def to_time
>                 Time.local(year,month,day,hour,min,sec)
>         end
> end
>
> class Date
>         def to_time
>                 Time.local(year,month,day)
>         end
> end
>
>
> Kirk Haines
>
>

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