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Bug #10135

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Time.at is inaccurate

Added by thesmart (John Smart) over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Target version:
ruby -v:
ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin13.0]
[ruby-core:64369]

Description

I believe I have found an issue with Time.at. Many runtimes and DBs use milliseconds since epoch for recording time. Currently, the only way to generate a Time in ruby with milliseconds is:

Time.at(milliseconds / 1000.0)

However, this is inaccurate:

> Time.at(1381089302195 / 1000.0).to_f
=> 1381089302.1949997
> Time.at(1381089302195 / 1000.0).strftime('%3N')
=> "194"

This doesn't make much sense because you would expect:

> 1381089302195 / 1000.0
=> 1381089302.195
> (1381089302195 / 1000.0).to_f
=> 1381089302.195

It seems that somewhere in the MRI, someone is using floating-point math to represent a Time.

Is there any other way (workaround) to construct Time with millisecond accuracy?


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