From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T06:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Timestamp

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

/ ...

> 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)

Such things are easy enough to add to Fixnum:

class Fixnum
  def hours
    return self * 3600
  end
  def minutes
    return self * 60
  end
end

This avoids finding and adapting an entire library for such handy but simple
extensions.

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Paul Lutus
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