Ruby Date Now To String

Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time.

Ruby date now to string. Date and datetime class tadayoshi funaba 1998 2011 date provides two classes. It s because the object of datetime class can access strftime method. Date and datetime classes are both from date library. You can see why when we transition across the reform date boundary.

Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time. And time class from its own time library. Time1 inspect time now is a synonym. Time is stored internally as the number of seconds with fraction since the epoch january 1 1970 00 00 utc also see the library module date.

The datetime object containing current date and time is stored in now variable. We imported datetime class from the datetime module. There are 3 different classes in ruby that handle date and time. But you may want something else.

Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time. Time now utc ruby time formatting. Terms and definitions some terms and definitions are based on iso 8601 and jis x 0301. Time is an abstraction of dates and times.

Calendar date the calendar date is a particular day of a calendar year identified by its ordinal number within a calendar month within that year. Something that adapts to your use case. An argument that all the celebrations that take place on the 23rd april in stratford upon avon are actually the wrong date since england is now using the gregorian calendar. Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.

The strftime method can be used to create formatted strings. Usr bin ruby w time1 time new puts current time. For example this shows what i don t want. Datetime ruby 2 6 1.

The string you pass to the strftime method may contain more than one format. Datetime now sat 19 nov 2011 18 54 13 utc 00 00 this shows what. Both datetime and time classes can be used to handle year month day hour min sec attributes. You can use a method to get almost any format you need.

T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc. I need to use datetime now to grab the current date and strip off the time. But underneath time class stores integer numbers which presents the seconds intervals since the epoch. 48 000 local time with decimal fraction full stop as decimal sign extended h m s z 083748 0600 local time and the difference from utc basic t.