From: Brad Tilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T07:25:42+09:00
Subject: Re: representing a span of time

Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> x = 64299600.0
>> Brad
> Are these values seconds since epoch?  If so:
> 
> irb(main):002:0> Time.at(1157489583.2798 - 64299600.0)
> => Sun Aug 22 09:53:03 MDT 2004

They are dates in time from Time.mktime(1972, 1, 15, 0, 0, 0) and 
Time.now() represented as floats. Basically, I would like to show the 
difference in a human significant way (years, months, days, etc.)

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