Loosing time when using active support time helpers

Time.parse('2009-01-01')+15.days+0.5.days
=> Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 +0100 2009

Time.parse('2009-01-01')+15.days+0.5.days.to_i
=> Fri Jan 16 12:00:00 +0100 2009

12.hours gone :(

ruby version 1.8.7

2 thoughts on “Loosing time when using active support time helpers”

Craig Buchek says:

2009-01-16 at 18:14:50

I think it would be more expressive to say:

Time.parse(‘2009-01-01’)+15.days+12.hours

which works properly. The problem appears to be that 0.5.days returns a Float, whereas 15.days returns a FixNum.

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pragmatig says:

2009-01-16 at 19:26:12

yep, it works with hours.

0.5.days is not a float though (in second terms) very strange behavior.

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