From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T07:23:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17947] Re: Time vs ParseDate

Kero van Gelder wrote:
> > |Why doesn't Time accept the output from ParseDate.parsedate directly?
> > |
> > |Like
> > |  Time.gm(ParseDate.parsedate("Mon Jul 16 2001 GMT"))
> > 
> > Sorry for inconvenience.  Try this:
> > 
> >   Time.gm(*ParseDate.parsedate("Mon Jul 16 2001 GMT")[0..4])
> >   # => Mon Jul 16 12:00:00 UTC 2001
> 
> Not bad, but now I happen to have date which is given as a string by a
> remote client (via http), which must be used to determine whether a
> document has changed (and needs to be resent).
> 
> Control downto seconds would be nice, I think.

Try Date3 library from RAA.
With class Time you get the same, but only for years after 1970 (UNIX date).


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