Working With Rails

Not sure, but couldn’t you just do Time.now.to_i * 1000? If so, you could always monkeypatch it into the Time class:

Time.class_eval do
  def milliseconds
    self.to_i * 1000
  end
end

This way, you could say Time.now.milliseconds.

HTH

why not use core Time class ?

irb(main):001:0> require “Time”
=> true
irb(main):002:0> t = Time.now
=> Tue Jul 29 19:56:28 +0200 2008
irb(main):003:0> t.strftime(“%s”)
=> “1217354188”
irb(main):004:0> t.strftime(“%s”).to_i
=> 1217354188

Christian: Isn’t this the value in seconds instead of milliseconds?

clemens,
strftime parameter “%S” shows the seconds – part of a time.
however, “%s” does not seem to be correct either, because it shows only the seconds since the Epoch, UTC.

so extending time or creating helpers would be it.