From: Michael McDaniel <ruby@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T01:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Timezone name -> UTC hour offset?

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Timezone name -> UTC hour offset?"
>     on 02/04/01, Michael McDaniel <ruby@fourthcrusade.com> writes:
> 
> |I couldn't figure out how to convert seconds back to a Time object (e.g.
> |t.to_f returns seconds as Float since the epoch (or t.to_i for Integer),
> |but no way I know to convert that Float (or Integer) value back to a Time
> |object or date string (e.g. in Tcl 'clock format [clock seconds]' returns
> |the present date ('clock seconds' returns #seconds since the epoch)).
> 
> Time.at(float)
> 
> matz.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you Matz! and also thank you for ruby!  I did not read the fine print 
well enough and now I have (goat book, pg 106, first Time method, fine 
print)!

So, Sean, maybe work in seconds only and do a final conversion back to Time 
object only when you need it.

~mm