Adding x minutes to a DateTime object

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May 26th, 2008, 05:56 PM

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Adding x minutes to a DateTime object

Suppose I have a DateTime object d1, and I want to add x minutes to it to form a second DateTime object d2. How do you do that?

May 27th, 2008, 09:09 PM

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You can do something like this. I used the variable names you mentioned in the example.

Code:

d2 = d1.advance(:minutes => x)

June 1st, 2008, 10:42 PM

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Thanks for the reply. It's in a Rails application, so I also found an approach using since:

Code:

x.minutes.since d1

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