From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T23:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 08:32 am, `p wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 05:21 am, Andy Delcambre wrote:
> >>As long as you dont go past 24 hours you can use the Time
> >> class:
> >>
> >>irb(main):016:0> Time.at(7683).gmtime.strftime('%R:%S')
> >>=> "02:08:03"
> >
> > Next question: How do I get the number of seconds since Epoch?
>
> time.to_i
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000196

Cool! Thanks!

#!/usr/bin/ruby
b4 = Time.new
sleep(3)
after = Time.new
interval = after.to_i - b4.to_i
print "Started at ", b4.asctime, ", ended at ", after.asctime
print "\n   Interval is ", interval.to_s, ".\n"

SteveT

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