From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-27T05:59:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Timestamp

Hi --

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Srinivas Sa wrote:

> My timestamps are HH:MM:SS,nnnn format.. I mentioned wrongly before...
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> can somebody help me out?

You might find it interesting to look into some of the date/time
extensions in ActiveSupport, the utility library that ships with
Rails.  You get things like:

   20.hours   # 72000 (# of seconds in 20 hours)


David

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