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ljnissen
ljnissen

Reputation: 139

yyyy-mm-dd to timestamps in Ruby On Rails?

I'm building a Rails App where I want to convert some database entries to timestamps. Trouble is that they are in the format yyyy-mm-dd which gives this wrong timestamp:

irb(main):005:0> Date.new(2014-05-14).to_time.to_i * 1000
=> 788914800000

Instead I want something like this:

irb(main):006:0> Date.new(2014,05,14).to_time.to_i * 1000
=> 1400018400000

So how do I go about doing that in Ruby?

I've looked at this thread, but although helpful, it doesn't really solve my problem.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 903

Answers (2)

SteveTurczyn
SteveTurczyn

Reputation: 36860

You could use Time.parse...

database_entry = '2014-05-14'
Time.parse(database_entry)
=> => 2014-05-14 00:00:00 +0100

Upvotes: 1

nishu
nishu

Reputation: 1493

You should use Date.parse instead of Date.new

Date.parse('2014-05-14').to_time.to_i * 1000

When Date.new is called with 2014-05-14 it mean that it is being passed 1995 as an year, hence the wrong timestamp.

Upvotes: 3

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