Question
How do you convert between a DateTime and a Time object in Ruby?
Answer
You'll need two slightly different conversions.
To convert from Time
to DateTime
you can amend the Time class as
follows:
require 'date'
class Time
def to_datetime
# Convert seconds + microseconds into a fractional number of seconds
seconds = sec + Rational(usec, 10**6)
# Convert a UTC offset measured in minutes to one measured in a
# fraction of a day.
offset = Rational(utc_offset, 60 * 60 * 24)
DateTime.new(year, month, day, hour, min, seconds, offset)
end
end
Similar adjustments to Date will let you convert DateTime
to Time
.
class Date
def to_gm_time
to_time(new_offset, :gm)
end
def to_local_time
to_time(new_offset(DateTime.now.offset-offset), :local)
end
private
def to_time(dest, method)
#Convert a fraction of a day to a number of microseconds
usec = (dest.sec_fraction * 60 * 60 * 24 * (10**6)).to_i
Time.send(method, dest.year, dest.month, dest.day, dest.hour, dest.min,
dest.sec, usec)
end
end
Note that you have to choose between local time and GM/UTC time.
Both the above code snippets are taken from O'Reilly's Ruby Cookbook. Their code reuse policy permits this.