From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T12:05:23+09:00
Subject: Re: to_time doesn't do anything??

Guillaume Loader wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I have a date: creation_date which is a DateTime object. I want to
> convert it in Time.
> So I used the function to_time but there is no effect. My object remains
> a DateTime object.
>
> (rdb:1) creation_date
> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:30:00 -0800
> (rdb:1) creation_date.class
> DateTime
>
> (rdb:1) creation_date.to_time
> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:30:00 -0800
> (rdb:1) creation_date.to_time.class
> DateTime
>
> Could you help me, please?
>
> Thank you!
>   

I don't see this behavior.

ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux]
irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)

irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> DateTime.now.class
=> DateTime
irb(main):003:0> DateTime.now.to_time
=> 2009-03-17 20:06:23 -0700
irb(main):004:0> DateTime.now.to_time.class
=> Time


-Justin