From: Eric Lee Green <eric@...>
Date: 2001-10-14T03:07:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22492] Re: Getting at the raw mtime value :-(

On Saturday 13 October 2001 10:59, you wrote:
> At Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:41:24 +0900,
>
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the File.stat object returns the 'mtime' as an
> > already-translated ASCII string ( i.e., like localtime(time()) rather
> > than like time() ).
>
> No. File.mtime(file) (or File.stat(file).mtime) returns a Time instance,
> not a formatted String.

Ah. I see. When I did #{mtime} in a string to build an SQL query it returned 
a formatted string, but if I do #{mtime.to_i} it should put the integer 
value. Thanks!

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