From: Kenichi Kamiya Date: 2012-01-22T05:52:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Parsing log with date time entry Hi Is this log fomart below meanings? mon/day/year hour:min:sec:millisec And Time.parse is not better this case, I guess. And Christopher want to millisec? then you use padding 0 or cast to Time # a sample of "cast to Time" with Peter's test case(+) http://ideone.com/tBz7D # Note "%L" in Time#strftime means 'microsec', I did't know this too. -- Kenichi Kamiya (kachick)