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Asked: 2026-05-21T03:53:28+00:00

Is there a nice way to convert the timestamp you get from twitter (shown

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Is there a nice way to convert the timestamp you get from twitter (shown below) into a nice unix timestamp using ruby?

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:33:00 +0000

Any help would be appreciated!

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    Time.parse to convert it to Ruby Time and Time#to_i to get your Unix time.

    # Load the Time.parse method.
require 'time'

Time.parse('Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:33:00 +0000').to_i
#=> 1302006780
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