From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T04:41:49+09:00
Subject: Re: need help with timestamping

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Daniel Bretoi wrote:

check out the parsedate module - it's in the pickaxe.

-a

> Hi,
>
> I want to write a timestamp to a file, then read it in, and get a time
> object again.
>
> I've useusally done this with something like, epoch times
>
> a Time.now
> file.puts a.epoch
>
> ..
>
> f = file.read
> b = mktime(f)
>
> but I can't seem to find a native way of doing this.
>
> is there?
>
> db
>
>
> --
> May 16 	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
> May 17 	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
> May 17 	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
> May 18 	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
> May 18 	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
> May 16 	Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
> May 17 	Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway
> May 18 	Flag Day in Haiti
> May 18 	Prayer Day in Denmark
> May 18 	Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
> May 17*	Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday of May)
> May 16*	Omer 49th day
> May 17*	Erev Shavout
> May 18*	Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach)
> May 18*	Yizkor
>
>

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