From: Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T04:34:52+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?
>  
>
As Mike Fletcher answered in another email, there is a Standard Library 
module called Time, that you can require into your script.  This adds a 
parse method to the Time built-in class.

If you don't want to do that, you could roll your own by using 
Time.local and parsing the string yourself and feeding the results to 
Time.local.

As far as finding the difference between two times, you can use the "-" 
instance method to find the difference in seconds.  If you need that in 
hours or minutes, just have your script do the math.

Definitely more work, but if you are looking for more speed than 
DateTime, it might be worth it.

Jamey