From: Christopher Brown <cbrown@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T00:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string to Time?


On 01 Feb 2007, at 2:55 PM, _Kevin wrote:

> On Jan 31, 5:47 pm, Florian A�mann <florian.assm...@email.de> wrote:
>> Look athttp://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/
>>
>> .. see Time.mktime
>>
>> .. first you should split(' ') ya string and then split the result,
>> order da stuff and put it into mktime...
>>
>> Am 31.01.2007 um 22:20 schrieb Chris McMahon:
>>
>>> How can I convert a string such as '2007-01-31 12:22:26' to a Time
>>> object?
>
> the ruby-units gem also has a helper for this...
>
> '2007-01-31 12:22:26'.to_time  #=>  Wed Jan 31 12:22:26 EST 2007
>
> _Kevin
>
>
Time. parse seems to do the trick too...

irb(main):003:0> Time.parse("2007-01-31 12:22:26")
=> Wed Jan 31 12:22:26 SAST 2007