diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
index dd1ff8f..ba6f8aa 100644
--- a/README.rdoc
+++ b/README.rdoc
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ I needed this, but taking into account business hours/days and holidays.
     ticket_reported = Time.parse("February 3, 2012, 10:40 am")
     ticket_resolved = Time.parse("February 4, 2012, 10:50 am")
     ticket_reported.business_time_until(ticket_resolved) #=> 8.hours + 10.minutes
+    
+    # you can also determine if a given time is within business hours
+    Time.parse("February 3, 2012, 10:00 am").during_business_hours?
 
     # note that counterintuitively, durations might not be quite what you expect when involving weekends.
     # Consider the following example:
@@ -162,6 +165,7 @@ I'm hoping Arild and I write some good blog entries on the subject at http://blo
  * Piotr Jakubowski http://github.com/piotrj
  * Glenn Vanderburg http://github.com/glv
  * Michael Grosser http://github.com/grosser
+ * Michael Curtis http://github.com/mcurtis
 
  (Special thanks for Arild on the complexities of dealing with TimeWithZone)
 
diff --git a/lib/business_time/time_extensions.rb b/lib/business_time/time_extensions.rb
index 3f88574..b94d656 100644
--- a/lib/business_time/time_extensions.rb
+++ b/lib/business_time/time_extensions.rb
@@ -141,5 +141,9 @@ def business_time_until(to_time)
         first_day + days_in_between + last_day
       end * direction
     end
+    
+    def during_business_hours?
+      Time.workday?(self) && self.to_i.between?(Time.beginning_of_workday(self).to_i, Time.end_of_workday(self).to_i)
+    end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/test_time_extensions.rb b/test/test_time_extensions.rb
index fa2a76b..f705377 100644
--- a/test/test_time_extensions.rb
+++ b/test/test_time_extensions.rb
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@
     ticket_resolved = Time.parse("February 4, 2012, 10:40 am") #will roll over to Monday morning, 9:00am
     assert_equal ticket_reported.business_time_until(ticket_resolved), 6.hours + 20.minutes
   end
+  
+  it "knows if within business hours" do
+    assert(Time.parse("2013-02-01 10:00").during_business_hours?)
+    assert(!Time.parse("2013-02-01 5:00").during_business_hours?)
+  end
 
   # =================== .roll_backward ======================