From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T16:24:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Swatch's internet time in Ruby [Code Inside]

Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote:
> Hello ALL!
> 
> Just wanted to share... maybe someone have a better way to do this:
> 
> -----<beats.rb>-----
> class Time
> 
>         def bmt_hour
>                 h = self.gmtime.hour + 1
>                 return 0 if h == 24
>                 return h
>         end
> 
>         def beats
>                 ((self.bmt_hour * 60 * 60) + (self.min * 60) + self.sec) / 86.4
>         end             
> 
>         protected :bmt_hour
> end
> -----<EOF beats.rb>-----
> 
> require('beats.rb') and Time.now.beats returns the Internet Time in beats

I have no problem with the coding style... there are various
ways of doing it.

But is this correct? Beat 0 isn't midnight GMT, is it? Isn't there
a time zone difference? Maybe I'm wrong.

I wrote similar code in _The Ruby Way_, but I've forgotten the details.


Cheers,
Hal