comp.lang.ruby

Konrad Meyer

8/9/2007 9:25:00 AM

On Thursday 09 August 2007 01:29:46 am Jochen Kaechelin wrote:
> I want to calculate the difference (days, hours, minutes)
> between a given date out of a mysql database (2007-07-07, date) and
> the current date (Time.now).
>
> How can I achieve this?

ex:

require 'parsedate'

sql_time = Time.mktime(*ParseDate.parsedate("2007-07-07"))
cur_time = Time.now

difference = cur_time - sql_time # result will be in seconds

Hope that helps.
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