From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T00:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:21 am, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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}."

Confirmed! That's much cleaner. I've been looking for something like 
that, and didn't want to kill a kitten by using printf() :-)

Thanks

SteveT

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