From: Charlie Bowman <cmbowma@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T04:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime and speed question

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I recieve the following error at home and at work

irb(main):001:0> ri Time.parse
NoMethodError: undefined method `parse' for Time:Class
        from (irb):1


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 04:24 +0900, Mike Fletcher wrote:

> 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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