From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T03:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Reverting date from Time.to_s

On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Utsav Gupta wrote:

> I receive the dates from Twitter in the following format "Mon Mar 22
> 04:42:17 +0000 2010"
> 
> Now how can I create a time object from this string... ie Obj.year=2010,
> Obj.month=3... etc etc

Quite simple.

cremes$ irb
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > require 'time'
 => true 
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > s = "Mon Mar 22 04:42:17 +0000 2010" 
 => "Mon Mar 22 04:42:17 +0000 2010" 
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > t = Time.parse s
 => 2010-03-21 23:42:17 -0500 
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > t.month
 => 3 
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > t.year
 => 2010 

Note that Time.parse creates your time object with the local timezone. You can still access zulu time by using the #utc method on that object.

cr