From: Charlie Bowman <cmbowma@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T04:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime.parse speed question

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The Time class doesn't appear to have any methods to parse a string into
a time object or to find the difference of two times.  How can this be
done without using the DateTime class?


> >
> DateTime, being written in Ruby itself, is pretty slow.  If you can use 
> the Time class instead, you will see a significant performance boost, 
> since it is written in C.
> 
> There is one gotcha about the Time class:  on Windows, you can't create 
> a Time object earlier than January 1, 1970 (this is not a limitation on 
> *nix).  If this is not an issue for you, you might be able to get away 
> with using Time.
> 
> Jamey
> 
> 

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