I currently decided to just use something like:
def time_to_seconds time_display
time = time_display.split(":")
seconds = 0
modifiers = [ 1, 60, 360 ]
time.each_with_index do | t, i |
seconds = seconds + ( t.to_i * modifiers[time.length -1 - i] )
end
return seconds
end
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Rick<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, I'm new to rails (and Ruby)...
>
> I'm trying to figure out the best practice for handling a duration
> field (for example "time it takes someone to run a mile." )
>
> All I care about is seconds (not milliseconds) so figured I'd store
> the field as an integer.
>
> I want to allow the user to enter in the time manually as:
>
> //1 minute 5 seconds:
> 1:05
> OR
> 01:05
>
> //2 hours 4 minutes 6 seconds:
> 2:04:06
> OR
> 02:04:06
>
>
> I have a helper that will convert seconds to a time display as:
>
> def seconds_to_time seconds
> Time.at(seconds).gmtime.strftime('%R:%S')
> end
>
> But how should I handle the conversion the other way around from the
> input (ie convert 01:35 to seconds?)
> Do I need to do some complex parsing of the String itself parsing out
> : (remember it could be xx:xx:xx or just xx:xx )
> or can I somehow leverage Time.parse ?
>
> I would think this would come up quite often so there must be a best
> practice or easy way to handle this kind of thing.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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