On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Aaron Smith wrote:

> I don't see any obvious ways of making a new Date object based off of
> what Time.now rerurns. I'm ultimately trying to make a new Date from
> milliseconds:
>
> tn = Time.now
> ms = ("%.6f" % tn.to_f) #this would ultimately be comming from another
> source
> nd = Time.at( ms.to_f / 1000.0 )
> puts nd.to_a.inspect

Remember, ri is your friend

% ri Date::civil
------------------------------------------------------------ Date::civil
      Date::civil(y=-4712, m=1, d=1, sg=ITALY)
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