From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T23:21:30+09:00
Subject: Re: convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds

On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> b4 = Time.new
> sleep(3)
> after = Time.new
> interval = after.to_i - b4.to_i

You can just subtract normally.  Time knows what to do:

   interval = after - b4

> print "Started at ", b4.asctime, ", ended at ", after.asctime
> print "\n   Interval is ", interval.to_s, ".\n"

It's a good idea to get into the habit of using interpolation with  
Ruby.  That let's Ruby take care of stringifying your values.  We can  
also lose those \n characters:

   puts "Started at #{b4} and ended at #{after}."
   puts "Interval is #{interval}."

James Edward Gray II