Anyone know how to take a date or time prior to 1970 and convert it into
negative seconds or milliseconds?
I know there is time.to_i, but a Time object can’t be prior to 1970 or
else it will throw an error.
On Oct 31, 11:52 am, Aryk G. [email protected]
wrote:
Anyone know how to take a date or time prior to 1970 and convert it into
negative seconds or milliseconds?I know there is time.to_i, but a Time object can’t be prior to 1970 or
else it will throw an error.Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
ActiveSupport Time#to_date
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/Conversions.html#M000327
you should be aware that SQL server and Oracle have had gotchas
concerning Date and Datetime objects, tho i don’t recall specifics
now.
On Oct 31, 2:18 pm, gene tani [email protected] wrote:
ActiveSupport Time#to_datehttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/…
you should be aware that SQL server and Oracle have had gotchas
concerning Date and Datetime objects, tho i don’t recall specifics
now.
BTW: Oracle and SQLserver:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3430
http://blog.rayapps.com/2007/08/27/how-to-explicitly-set-oracle-date-column-as-ruby-date-attribute/
Aryk G. [email protected] wrote:
What im trying to do is a take a Date object occurring before 1970 and
convert it into negative milliseconds/seconds.
This will do seconds:
irb(main):005:0> require “date”
=> true
irb(main):006:0> d = Date.parse(“1950-01-01”)
=> #<Date: 4866565/2,0,2299161>
irb(main):007:0> d.strftime(“%s”)
=> “-631152000”
irb(main):008:0> d.strftime(“%s”).to_i
=> -631152000
Cheers,
Tyler
Right, Im aware of the to_date function, but that returns a date object.
What im trying to do is a take a Date object occurring before 1970 and
convert it into negative milliseconds/seconds.
so I want the resulting value to be a negative integer. So what you are
showing me doesnt work unless you can craft a simple proof of concept
using those functions.
Thanks Tyler, you’re awesome.