From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T03:28:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25565] Re: [newbie] Time.now into 4 bytes

On Friday 16 November 2001 08:25 am, mrp@cre.canon.co.uk wrote:
> i would like to grab the current time into 4 bytes in an array.
> trying lots of variations of:
>   Time.now.to_i.to_s.unpack()
> but i'm getting nowhere.
>
> i can do this by hand (bitmasks and shifts) but can anyone
> tell me a rubyer way of doing this ?

This seems to work (LS byte first):

 [ Time.now.to_i ].pack('V').unpack('C4')

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