convert time in seconds in ruby

Question

I've got time 2014-01-01 06:31:00 UTC.

from above time format I need to extract 06:31:00 in seconds except year:month:date

i.e 2014-01-01 06:31:00 should return 6*60*60+31*60=23460 seconds,

what is the best approach for this

Answer 1

Rails provides Time#seconds_since_midnight:

time = Time.parse("2014-01-01 06:31:00 UTC")

time.seconds_since_midnight
#=> 23460.0