# WIN32OLE Date Conversion

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-date-conversion/122252>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-date-conversion/122252 "2007-12-05T22:45:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![randall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@randall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/randall)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-date-conversion/122252/1 "2007-12-05T22:45:52Z")

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I’m using WIN32OLE calls to grab data from Microsoft’s Active  
Directory. The values returned for the date fields are WIN32OLE  
objects, which I need to convert to MySQL timestamp format. Can  
anyone tell me how to do that?

Regards,

Mike