Difference in minutes betwen two Datetime

Rails
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Hi!

I need to calculate the difference between two Datetime and convert it
into minutes.

diff = Time.now() - my_date

How can I convert diff now into minutes?

Best regards
lacky

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On Dec 5, 10:02 pm, Günther Lackner [email protected]
wrote:

Hi!

I need to calculate the difference between two Datetime and convert it
into minutes.

diff = Time.now() - my_date

How can I convert diff now into minutes?

What class is my_date ? (my_date.class)
Is it DateTime, or is TIme or ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone ?
In general, the difference seems to be in seconds when you subtract
two objects of the same class so you’d divide by 60 to get minutes. I
think you can also subtract between Time and TimeWithZone but you may
run into trouble with other combinations.

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why you don’t use distance_of_time_in_words()?

you can rewrite maybe this method in a helper and customize.

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Günther Lackner wrote in post #756895:

Hi!

I need to calculate the difference between two Datetime and convert it
into minutes.

diff = Time.now() - my_date

How can I convert diff now into minutes?

Best regards
lacky

Try time_diff | RubyGems.org | your community gem host

It returns the difference in a hash

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On 9 March 2011 16:10, ABHILASH M.A [email protected] wrote:

Günther Lackner wrote in post #756895:

Hi!

I need to calculate the difference between two Datetime and convert it
into minutes.

diff = Time.now() - my_date

ruby-1.8.7-p302 > t1 = Time.now
=> Wed Mar 09 16:24:09 +0000 2011
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > t2 = Time.now
=> Wed Mar 09 16:24:22 +0000 2011
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > t2 - t1
=> 12.607967

The difference is in seconds. I think your my_date variable is not a
Time or DateTime object.

Colin

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:10 AM, ABHILASH M.A [email protected]
wrote:

diff is in seconds. so just divide it by 60 :smiley:

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