[fxruby-users] to get the system date / time?

[dave L]

Len,

Many thanks,

two two others sent me similar pointers and i had taken it for granted that FXruby might have had it's own datetime handling routines - Doh light has since switched on 

Dave.

--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Len Lawrence <lcl at tarazed.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Len Lawrence <lcl at tarazed.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] to get the system date / time?
> To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org
> Received: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 12:33 AM
> dave L wrote:
> > I would like to be able to get the PC system date/time
> as you can in ruby.
> >
> > not exactly sure why i'm not getting it currently!
> >
> > I'm doing this at the moment.
> >
> > mydate = Date
> > mytime = Time
> >
> > these failed so added a .now and it still failed!!!
> >
> > looked at the fxruby Rdoc site and found no luck their
> as yet (and 
> > googled)!
> >
> > dave.
> >
> >
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> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Have you got
> 
> require 'date'
> 
> in your header section?
> 
> I have this in one of my non FX scripts:
> 
> Today = (DateTime.now).to_s.slice( 0, 10 ).tr( '-', ' ' )
> 
> to get the year, month and day.
> 
> Len
> 
> 
> 
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