From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-01-07T04:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get a time object from a date object ?


Devin Mullins wrote:
> shawn bright wrote:
> > lo there all, i have a date object, and i need to make a time object from
> > it.
> > i tried the to_i, ( what i really need are the seconds ) but it failed.
> > I am
> > sure that there is an easy way to do this, i just can't seem to find it.
>
> Time.local(date.year, date.month, date.day)
>
> (Courtesy of
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Date/Conversions.html,
> actually.)

class DateTime
  def to_time
    Time.local( year, month, day, hour, min, sec )
  end
end

puts (DateTime.now - 14).to_time