From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T03:55:20+09:00
Subject: Re: time comparison

With 3600 seconds in an hour, it even works better!

Sorry,
Guillaume.

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:51, Guillaume Marcais wrote:
> 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...
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1
> > 
> 
> 
>