From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-12T01:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to get epoch seconds from mysql datetime value

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, shawn bright wrote:

> Hey there all,
>
> if i have a mysql datetime value that looks like this:
> some_time = '2006-05-11 05:14:14'
>
> and i want to get seconds since the unix epoch, how would i go about that ?
>
> thanks

require 'time'

t = Time.parse some_time
epoch_seconds = t.to_i

-a
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