From: "Florian Aßmann" <florian.assmann@...>
Date: 2008-11-27T15:57:37+09:00
Subject: Re: To get time differnece in hours between two time values

(Time.now - incidents.first.created_on) / 1.hour

Am 27.11.2008 um 06:48 schrieb Pierre Pat:

> Sijo Kg wrote:
>> Hi
>>    I have two values like incidents.first.created_on  and  Time.now
>> bothe are of class Time  Now I would like to get differnet between  
>> these
>> two in hours  I gtried like
>>
>> (Time.now-incidents.first.created_on).hours
>>     But getting wrong result..Could you please tell how I can do  
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Sijo
>
> Time.now-incidents.first.created_on will return you the number of
> seconds in Numeric, that's why you can't call the method 'hours' on  
> it.
> I haven't seen a method which would convert seconds in hours for  
> you, if
> there really isn't one, you'll have to make the convertion to hours
> yourself...
>
> Cheers.
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