This example creates a date and time variable which represents 22nd March 2008 4:30pm and 12 seconds.

d2 = DateTime.new(y=200,m=3,d=22, h=16,min=30,s=12)

or convert a date string into a DataTime object:

"17/03/2009 17:48:00"[/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\s(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/]
d2 = DateTime.new(y=$3.to_i,m=$2.to_i,d=$1.to_i, h=$4.to_i,min=$5.to_i,s=$6.to_i)

or convert a date string into a Time object:

"22/03/2008 17:48:00"[/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\s(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/]
iyear = $3.to_i; imonth = $2.to_i; iday = $1.to_i; ihour = $4.to_i; imin = $5.to_i; isec = $6.to_i
twork = Time.local(iyear,imonth,iday,ihour,imin,isec) 
puts 'we still have time to party' if Time.now < twork 

Reference:
Class: DateTime [ruby-doc.org]
Class: Time [ruby-doc.org]

This example creates a date variable which represents 22nd March 2008.

  require 'date'
  d1 = Date.new(y=2008,m=3,d=22)
  puts d1

output: 2008-03-22

Adds files to an existing Zip file.

Overwrites zip entries with the same name as one of the new files.

The function renames the existing zip file to a temporary file and then adds all entries in the existing zip along with the new files, excluding the zip entries that have the same name as one of the new files.


Note: I'm not sure I used the best way to get a temp file. A snippet for that is welcome :)

	
	public static void addFilesToExistingZip(File zipFile,
			 File[] files) throws IOException {
                // get a temp file
		File tempFile = File.createTempFile(zipFile.getName(), null);
                // delete it, otherwise you cannot rename your existing zip to it.
		tempFile.delete();

		boolean renameOk=zipFile.renameTo(tempFile);
		if (!renameOk)
		{
			throw new RuntimeException("could not rename the file "+zipFile.getAbsolutePath()+" to "+tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
		}
		byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
		
		ZipInputStream zin = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream(tempFile));
		ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFile));
		
		ZipEntry entry = zin.getNextEntry();
		while (entry != null) {
			String name = entry.getName();
			boolean notInFiles = true;
			for (File f : files) {
				if (f.getName().equals(name)) {
					notInFiles = false;
					break;
				}
			}
			if (notInFiles) {
				// Add ZIP entry to output stream.
				out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(name));
				// Transfer bytes from the ZIP file to the output file
				int len;
				while ((len = zin.read(buf)) > 0) {
					out.write(buf, 0, len);
				}
			}
			entry = zin.getNextEntry();
		}
		// Close the streams		
		zin.close();
		// Compress the files
		for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
			InputStream in = new FileInputStream(files[i]);
			// Add ZIP entry to output stream.
			out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(files[i].getName()));
			// Transfer bytes from the file to the ZIP file
			int len;
			while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
				out.write(buf, 0, len);
			}
			// Complete the entry
			out.closeEntry();
			in.close();
		}
		// Complete the ZIP file
		out.close();
		tempFile.delete();
	}

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  ...

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  ...

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