By my crude calculations, it is now 99 days until the
third annual international Ruby Conference in Austin,
Texas, November 14-16, 2003.
I urge you all to be there. Go to rubycentral.org and
pre-register if you haven’t already.
In fact, do so even if you can’t attend. We are tracking
the reasons people say they can’t attend.
Thanks,
Hal
"And the clock ticks…"
–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com
No need to be crude when you have Ruby. 
$ ruby -r date -e ‘puts Date.new(2003,11,14) - Date.new(2003,8,8)’
98
$
Of course, it really is 99 days for those of us who are still in
Thursday.
-Mark
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:42:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
By my crude calculations, it is now 99 days until the
third annual international Ruby Conference in Austin,
Texas, November 14-16, 2003.
By my crude calculations, it is now 99 days until the
third annual international Ruby Conference in Austin,
Texas, November 14-16, 2003.No need to be crude when you have Ruby.
$ ruby -r date -e ‘puts Date.new(2003,11,14) - Date.new(2003,8,8)’
98
$Of course, it really is 99 days for those of us who are still in
Thursday.
Well, it’s the same amount of time regardless of where you
are… 
Give or take a few nanoseconds… time dilation
is not much at subsonic speeds.
My code was as follows… crudeness comes when you
don’t know the precise instant the conference starts.
t0 = Time.mktime(2003,11,14,19,0,0) # 7 pm?
t1 = Time.now
days = (t0 - t1)/86400.0
puts “#{days} days”
Cheers,
Hal
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From: “Mark J. Reed” markjreed@mail.com
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: 99 days…
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:42:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
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Hal Fulton
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