From: google@... (Tom Payne)
Date: 2003-05-07T18:35:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Unix timestamp -> Time object

Andreas Schwarz <usenet@andreas-s.net> wrote in message news:<slrnbbdl37.12d.usenet@home.andreas-s.net>... 
> I get a DATETIME field from a MySQL DB and am looking for an easy way to
> format it. In PHP I would have used date(formatstring, time), what is
> the best way to do it in Ruby?

SELECT it from MySQL as a numeric field, then use Time.at

SELECT time + 0 FROM table
            ^^^ this makes MySQL give you an integer

Regards,

Tom