On Aug 22, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Ben Johnson wrote:

> How do I get more precision that seconds in ruby? If I wanted to  
> know 1
> millisecond passed how would I do this?

 >> start = Time.now
=> Tue Aug 22 12:25:24 CDT 2006
 >> elapsed = start - Time.now
=> -16.744711

The fractional portion is fractional seconds.  Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II