From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T14:46:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Time question

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:25:04AM +0900, joep wrote:

> I am writing a small piece that will include a date that needs to be
> compared to the current time.

If you require date, you can do something like:

    if DateTime.now < (Date.parse(some_date_string.to_s) >> 72 )
	puts 'Pay up, chump!'
    end

There may be a more elegant way, but this would get the job done.

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