From: mrp@...
Date: 2001-06-30T05:25:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17086] [newbie] Time.now into 4 bytes

i would like to grab the current time into 4 bytes in an array.
trying lots of variations of:
  Time.now.to_i.to_s.unpack()
but i'm getting nowhere.

i can do this by hand (bitmasks and shifts) but can anyone
tell me a rubyer way of doing this ?

thanks
martin