From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2012-03-15T15:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Time. to_military_time?

Mario Trento wrote in post #1050601:
> Thanks, all
> I have this value as string "4:57PM", and I have a function now, but
> want to do it in simpler way:   4:57AM --> 16:57. This needed only for
> "PM" time

>> t = Time.parse("4:57PM")
=> Thu Mar 15 16:57:00 +0000 2012
>> t.strftime("%H%M")
=> "1657"

But you're actually doing more work than needed, because it's working 
out the number of seconds since midnight on Jan 1st 1970 for that 
particular time *today*

>> t.to_i
=> 1331830620

... and then converting back to local time and then just extracting the 
hours and minutes.

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