Berger, Daniel
9/5/2006 10:10:00 PM
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> [mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Brad Tilley
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: representing a span of time
>
>
> Say I have two time objects represented as floats like so:
>
> x = 64299600.0
> y = 1157489583.2798
>
> I want to subtract x from y and then represent the difference
> as years,
> months, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
>
> I don't see how the Time library would do this. Has anyone done
> something like this? If so, how?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
Are these values seconds since epoch? If so:
irb(main):002:0> Time.at(1157489583.2798 - 64299600.0)
=> Sun Aug 22 09:53:03 MDT 2004
Regards,
Dan
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