From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2007-10-27T01:03:33+09:00 Subject: Re: a=Time.now;(Time.parse(a.to_s)-a)!=0 On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:03 PM, John Carter wrote: > ruby -w -rtime -e 'a=Time.now;b = a.xmlschema(6);p b;p a- > Time.xmlschema(b)' > "2007-10-26T17:01:08.129059+13:00" > 0.0 though i prefer #iso8601 to #xmlschema because even typing the word 'xml' makes my skin crawl ;-) a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- share your knowledge. it's a way to achieve immortality. h.h. the 14th dalai lama