From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T00:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: time_t seconds since 1970 to Ruby Date?

In article <1023461051.1432.17.camel@penelope>, Christian Rishoj wrote:
> fre, 2002-06-07 kl. 16:37 skrev herman_graal@europe.com:
>> Is there a simple way to get a Ruby Date object from a unsigned int32 number representing the number of seconds since January 1st 1970?
> 
> 
> Time.at( Time.now.to_i )
> 
> ..where you substitute   Time.now.to_i  with your Fixnum

But if you want a Date object you might end up saying

  require 'date'

  ...

  myNumber = 9987653
  date = Date.new(*Time.at(myNumber).to_a[3 .. 5].reverse)

  date.to_s  # => "1970-04-26"

There must be a nicer way to do it...

Hope this helps,

Mike

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