Gabriele Marrone
11/11/2006 4:41:00 PM
On 11/nov/06, at 17:32, shawn bright wrote:
> Hey there all,
>
> if i have a mysql datetime value that looks like this:
> some_time = '2006-05-11 05:14:14'
>
> and i want to get seconds since the unix epoch, how would i go
> about that ?
>
> thanks
$ irb
>> require 'date'
=> true
>> some_time = '2006-05-11 05:14:14'
=> "2006-05-11 05:14:14"
>> time = Time.parse(some_time)
=> Thu May 11 05:14:14 0200 2006
>> time.to_i
=> 1147317254
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Gabriele Marrone