From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-27T12:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Time without Date

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, _Kevin wrote:

>
> List Recv wrote:
>> Related question:
>>
>> Is there a way to convert a Time (or DateTime) to Ruby's Date class?
>
> I added a few conversion methods like this to 'ruby-units' gem
>
> class Time
> def to_datetime
>    DateTime.civil(1970,1,1)+(self.to_f+self.gmt_offset)/86400
>  end
>
>  def to_date
>    Date.civil(1970,1,1)+(self.to_f+self.gmt_offset)/86400
>  end
> end
>
> This seems to work pretty well, although I haven't tested it on a wide
> range of OSs.

it's nice to have

   Time.to_time
   Time.to_date

   Date.to_time
   Date.to_date

   DateTime.to_time
   DateTime.to_date

so you can do

   do_not_care_which_one.to_time
   do_not_care_which_one.to_date

a la rails.

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