From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-20T17:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reference a different epoch.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Phil Henley <dantes990@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use the 'at' method in Time on some data pulled from an
> OSX file:
>
> Time.at(317192535.56501901)
>
> And my result is off by 30 years.  I assume this is because Ruby is
> referencing the Unix epoch of 1/1/1970 and I need to reference the OSX
> epoch of 1/1/2000.  Is there an easy way to change this so I'm
> referencing the OSX epoch?

That seems fairly easy

irb(main):001:0> OSX_EPOCH = Time.new(2001,1,1).to_i
=> 978303600
irb(main):002:0> Time.at(317192535.56501901 + OSX_EPOCH)
=> 2011-01-20 05:02:15 +0100

Kind regards

robert

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