From: jp <jonhy.pear@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T18:11:02+09:00
Subject: Re: getting a timestamp

On 19 Nov, 03:31, Sven Schott <sven.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> Don't know if this is what you're looking for but whenever I need a
> serial-style timestamp (like for a filename). I just do this:
>
> Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Reid Thompson <reid.thomp...@ateb.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > jp wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I would like to get a timestamp from a Date object. What is the best
> >> aproach for this?
>
> >> thank you
>
> >>  I think you want a DateTime or Time object, I believe a Date object only
> > represents a date, not a date and time unless perhaps 'date at midnight'
> > counts.

Hi,

It's enough to have the milliseconds since a given date in the past,
for example java has this:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#getTime()

It's there anything comparable in Ruby?

Thanks