Converting Ruby timestamp to seconds in Epoch and back

Question

I have a field in my database that is stored as a timestamp, I need to output this in seconds in EPOCH time.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15263767/converting-ruby-timestamp-to-seconds-in-epoch-and-back

Answer 1

Supposing your timestamp is a Ruby Time object:

puts time_stamp.strftime('%s')
puts time_stamp.to_i
timestamp = Time.at(628232400)

In case it is a DateTime object, you have the strftime and strptime methods at your disposal.