From: Josselin <josselin@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T02:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: modifying the hour in a datetime object already created

On 2006-09-14 18:46:38 +0200, "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kistner@anark.com> said:

> From: Josselin [mailto:josselin@wanadoo.fr]
>> but how can I modify the hour, which stays at 16:00:00 ?
> 
> You can't - DateTime objects are immutable. You'd need to create the
> DateTime object with the correct time.
> 
> It's situations like this which motivated me to make my own MutableTime
> class (that internally wraps changing Time objects). I never wrapped it
> up as a gem, but you can view the documentation and download it from:
> 
> http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/rdoc/files/MutableTime_rb.html
> 
> (See the "Full Code" link on that page to download it.)

thanks a lot Gavin... that's a nice trick for me (I'll need to 
manipulate dates ...)
I read 'immutable' in the class description, but did not link it to my 
problem... tired.. need to break !