From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-09-17T03:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: import utc in Time

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 17. Sep 2009, 01:12:30 +0900 schrieb Luca Roma:
> Hi, i'm using facebooker for receiving facebook's events.
> I receive the time of the event in utc format.
> 
> how can i import it in a Time object
> 
> in other words
> 
> a= Time.now.utc
> 
> how can i import a in a Time object??
> 
> this not works
> Time.parse(a)

UTC is a time zone, not a format. You need to load "time.rb".

  t = Time.now
  str_l = t.to_s
  t.utc
  str_u = t.to_s

  require "time"
  q = Time.parse str_l
  puts q
  q = Time.parse str_u
  puts q

Bertram


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