Concerting a Date Object into a UNIX Timestamp

[Dennis Oelkers]

Hello beloved Ruby-Community,

maybe a stupid question because I probably missed something reading the
reference of "Programming Ruby", but how do I convert a Date Object into
a UNIX Timestamp (seconds passed since the UNIX epoch)?

Kind regards,
Dennis Oelkers
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[Simon Strandgaard]

maybe a stupid question because I probably missed something reading the
reference of "Programming Ruby", but how do I convert a Date Object into
a UNIX Timestamp (seconds passed since the UNIX epoch)?

irb(main):001:0> Time.now.to_i
=> 1069258948
irb(main):002:0>

 

[Dennis Oelkers]

irb(main):001:0> Time.now.to_i
=> 1069258948
irb(main):002:0>

Ah, thank you very much for that helpful (and quick!) response,
in fact I tried the to_i method, but on a Date object (doh!).

irb(main):002:0> Date.new(2003, 11, 19).to_i
NoMethodError: undefined method `to_i' for #<Date: 4905925/2,0,2299161>
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

Kind regards,
Dennis Oelkers
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