Compare Date with TIme

Rails
1

Hi

When returning data from a database column set as a date field I get
‘2006-06-06’

I am then have these two lines of code in my controller, taht gain the
date I require.

pNow = Time.now
@pDate = Time.local(pNow.year, pNow.month, 1)

At the monment one is set to a date data type while one is set to a Time
data type.

how can i change these to be the same data type so i can run a > if
statment on both of them to compare whats greater than the other?

thanks
scott

2

dont worry, found a Date class hidden away in the documentation

problem solved by doing @pDate = Date.new(pTime.year, pTime.month,
pTime.day)

3

Both Time and Date have methods to convert them into instances of the
other, to_date and to_time respectively.

Time.now.to_date
Date.today.to_time

-Jonathan.

4

scott wrote:

At the monment one is set to a date data type
while one is set to a Time data type.

how can i change these to be the same data
type so i can run a > if statment on both of them
to compare whats greater than the other?

I think you’ll find what you need in the
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::(Time | Date)::Conversions modules at
http://api.rubyonrails.org/

hth,
Bill