From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2013-07-03T03:38:07+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I add minutes,seconds and hours to a DateTime object?

On 07/02/2013 11:23 AM, Love U Ruby wrote:
> require 'date'
> require 'time'
>
> text_t = "1:40 PM ET"
> dt = DateTime.parse(text_t) # => #<DateTime: 2013-07-02T13:40:00+00:00
> ((2456476j,49200s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
> dt.send(:minute) # => 40
> dt.minute # => 40
>
> Any way to add say 2 hours,5 minutes and 2 seconds to the `dt` object.
>

No, you cannot modify Date/DateTime objects. You must create a new one 
with the values you want: 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html#label-Date


-Justin