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April 25th, 2009, 04:38 PM

Omegas7

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Time have passed.

Hey there, I have asked this somewhere else but I will be asking here too:

How do I know how much time have passed since a time object?
I want a way to know how many seconds have passed?

Code:

$time = Time.now

# I leave, and come back after 3 hours.
# Now I want a method to return how much time have passed...
# It should return "10800", the number of seconds passed.

Thanks.

April 25th, 2009, 08:33 PM

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You can use a difference of clock values to determine the time your code ran:

ruby Code:

Original - ruby Code
timeStart = Time.now # Run your code here.... timeStop = Time.now puts (timeStart - timeStop) + " seconds have passed."

timeStart = Time.now

# Run your code here....


timeStop = Time.now

puts (timeStart - timeStop) + " seconds have passed."

Hope that helps.

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April 26th, 2009, 04:19 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by codergeek42

Code:

 (timeStart - timeStop)

Of course, you would need to take the negative of that

Code:

timeStop - timeStart

would do the trick.

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codergeek42 agrees: Errr, yeah. Sorry for the slight confusion. XD

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