How to get UTC timestamp in Ruby?

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Mohit Jain picture Mohit Jain · May 31, 2010 · Viewed 137.7k times · Source

How to get UTC timestamp in Ruby?

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manzhikov picture manzhikov · May 31, 2010

You could use: Time.now.to_i.

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