From: Pete Elmore <1337p337@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T05:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: More elegant way to condense a date/time string?

On 22/10/2007, jfry <jeff.fry@gmail.com> wrote:
> option I'd be happy with would be seconds (or smaller) since epoch,
> for example.

You can use Time.now.to_f.