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Gökhan Akduğan
Gökhan Akduğan

Reputation: 533

Time diff in Ruby in terms of minute

I am working on datediff in Ruby. I am making a query to the datebase and I am getting createdDate result in this format: 

2016-04-10T19:54:44.000Z.

My task is to check whether difference of createdDate and current time is greater than 30 mins or not. When I create current time in UTC format :

utctime = Time.now.utc

I am getting result like this ;

2016-04-10 19:59:57 UTC

My question is: the createdDate that I get from the database has T and .000Z. in it, it is any easy way to compare them to find 30 mins difference.

Because right now, I am planning to change:

T with space and .000Z. with UTC to make them in the same format.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 115

Answers (1)

Ilya
Ilya

Reputation: 13477

You can use standard - operator for Time objects:

time_diff = Time.parse('2016-04-10T19:54:44.000Z') - utctime #in seconds
result = (time_diff / 60).abs > 30 #true or false

Upvotes: 2

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