From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-11-09T00:50:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Parse date fields from mysql database

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Bart Braem wrote:

> I would like to be able to parse date fields from a MySQL database in order
> to get the day, year, hour etc. separately. Which library could do that for
> me? I can't think that I would have to parse those dates myself, right?

require 'time'

parsed_time = Time.parse(mysql_datetime)


If the mysql field has a value that is outside the range for Ruby's Time 
class, you can use DateTime:

require 'date'

parsed_time = DateTime.parse(mysql_datetime)



Kirk Haines