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rubydatetimesubtractionhour

Subtract n hours from a DateTime in Ruby

I have a Ruby DateTime which gets filled from a form. Additionally I have n hours from the form as well. I'd like to subtract those n hours from the previous DateTime. (To get a time range).

DateTime has two methods "-" and "<<" to subtract day and month, but not hour. (API). Any suggestions how I can do that?

Solution

  • You could do this.

    adjusted_datetime = (datetime_from_form.to_time - n.hours).to_datetime