------ art_49021_32911437.1168108305177 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline lo there all, i have a date object, and i need to make a time object from it. i tried the to_i, ( what i really need are the seconds ) but it failed. I am sure that there is an easy way to do this, i just can't seem to find it. thanks shawn ------ art_49021_32911437.1168108305177--