From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T22:05:55+09:00
Subject: Re: getting a timestamp

jp wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
maybe...
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/78420