From: Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T04:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime.parse speed question

Charlie Bowman wrote:
> 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?

ri Time.parse

freebie:~ 701> irb -r time
irb(main):001:0> Time.parse( "Mon Feb 13 14:22:10 EST 2006" )
=> Mon Feb 13 14:22:10 EST 2006
irb(main):002:0> t = Time.parse( "Mon Feb 13 14:22:10 EST 2006" )
=> Mon Feb 13 14:22:10 EST 2006
irb(main):003:0> t = t + 50
=> Mon Feb 13 14:23:00 EST 2006
irb(main):004:0> t = t + 3600
=> Mon Feb 13 15:23:00 EST 2006
irb(main):005:0> t_hour_later = t + 3600
=> Mon Feb 13 16:23:00 EST 2006
irb(main):006:0> t_hour_later - t
=> 3600.0

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