Ruby Date Format Conversion

Time inspect puts time year year of the date puts time month month of the date 1 to 12 puts time day day of the date 1 to 31 puts time wday 0.

Ruby date format conversion.

You can add your own formats to the date date formats hash. This might help you but it definitely helps me. We can see the actual date of shakespeare s death by using the gregorian method to convert it. Usr bin ruby w time time new components of a time puts current time.

Rails datetime formats want more of this sort of useful ruby rails help. Tue dec 24 7 50 00 0700 2013 2014 12 24 09 21 00. The directives begin with a percent character. You can format the system date using the strftime year month date hours minutes seconds method.

24 hour clock puts time min 59 puts time sec 59. What is epoch time. Require date datetime superclass date datetime now datetime. 0 is sunday puts time yday 365.

Formats date according to the directives in the given format string. Formats date according to the directives in the given format string. 2009 4 15 to a date. I can never remember the formatting for rails built in time and date formatting.

A one day single track conference for rubyists and the ruby curious. Adding your own date formats to to formatted s. The unix epoch or unix time or posix time or unix timestamp is the number of seconds that have elapsed since january 1 1970 midnight utc gmt not counting leap seconds in iso 8601. Usr bin ruby w time time new puts time inspect puts time strftime 2014 12 24 09 21 00 output.

Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string or proc instance that takes a date argument as the value. 1970 01 01t00 00 00z literally speaking the epoch is unix time 0 midnight 1 1 1970 but epoch is often used as a synonym for unix time. In ruby what s the best way to convert a string of the format. Formatting system time and date.

Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output string. Datetime ruby 2 6 1. If self is a julian date convert it to a gregorian date before converting it. Day of year puts time hour 23.

The directives begin with a percent character.