#Timecop Time.new

A morning peep lecture for the September and October cohorts

Time.new
Time.year
Time.month
Time.hour
Time.second
Time.new.to_a
nicetime = Time.new
nicetime.strftime("%A the %-d of %B %Y")
nicetime.strftime("%r")
nicetime.strftime("%R")
nicetime.strftime("%x")

Add to a time

time = Time.new
time + (60*60*24*7)
time + (seconds,minutes,hours,days)

The DateTime object

require 'date'

DateTime.new(y,m,d,h,m,s)
Time.new.to_date

The TimeDifference gem

TimeDifference.between(time1,time2).in_seconds
TimeDifference.between(time1,time2).in_years
TimeDifference.between(time1,time2).in_each_component
TimeDifference.between(time1,time2).in_general

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