From: Srinivas Sa <sr.sakhamuri@...>
Date: 2006-11-26T22:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Timestamp

Sorry for not being clear; I am trying to work on merging subtitle files 
which holds the subtitles of a movie. They have the HH:MM:SS,nnn and 
sentence that need to be flashed at that moment on the screen.

I just need to know how to add up two time stamps so that i can merge 
the two files and make it one continuous sequence of subtitles. E.g.

00:24:25,700 + 00:00:03,800 should yield 00:24:29,500

I don't bother what date (YY/MM/DD part) it is gonna be when I add up, 
it can be anything. So overflow is a t

Or is there a different class I have to use or should I write my own 
logic to do this?

Thanks in advance

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Srinivas Sa wrote:
> 
>> How do i add two time stamps
>> 
>> Time stamps are in the form of HH:MM:DD:SS,nnnn
>> 
>> Used Time.parse to convert to Time and tried add ts1 + ts2 but it failed
>> saying no method.
> 
> Saying what? Please paste the code and the exact wording of the error
> message into your newsreader.
> 
>> tried t1 + t1.to_i i am getting
>> 
>> irb(main):013:0> p t1 + t2.to_i
>> RangeError: time + 1164507831.000000 out of Time range
>>         from (irb):13:in `+'
>>         from (irb):13
> 
> Of course adding two times near the present would exceed the total range 
> of
> possible times, between December 31, 1969 (time approx. = 0) and January
> 18, 2038 (time approx. = (2^31)-1). That is the entire, total range for
> time variables, and if you try to add two times near the present, 
> November
> 11, 2006 (time approx. = 1164533263), you will overflow the acceptable
> range.
> 
> But this is an obvious error. Why not tell us what you are trying to
> accomplish?
> 
>> 
>> can somebody help me out?
> 
> Sure, no problem, I will be happy to help you out. But first, you need 
> to
> tell me that you want.
> 
> Computer programming can be described as telling a computer what you 
> want,
> in excruciatingly specific terms. Be just as specific in your reply.
> 
> 1. I want this ____________________
> 
> 2. But instead, I got this ______________________
> 
> 3. Here is how (1) and (2) differ from each other _________________
> 
> You have only described a problem on the way to a goal, but you didn't
> mention what the goal was.


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