From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T03:51:31+09:00
Subject: Re: time comparison

t3 = t2 - 24 * 2600 * x      # - for Time work on the seconds
if t1 < t3
  # Do something about it
  # It is more than x days old
end


Hope this helps,
Guillaume.


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:44, tony summerfelt wrote:
> i want to parse and trim a log file. the date format log file looks like:
>  26 Jan 23:19:26 2004
> 
> to get the time in a format i can use i did
> 
> t1=Time.parse("26 Jan 23:19:26 2004") #string expanded for example
> t2=Time.now
> 
> i'm want to compare the current date/time with the parsed one from the log.
> if the line is older than x number of days it will be ignored.
> 
> unfortunately i'm still relatively new a ruby and the 'principle of 
> least suprise' hit me about a dozen times...with suprises :/ 
> i'm used to perl's magic. so i'm here for guideance...
> 
> 
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