Formating date Time in Rails

Formating date Time in Rails

You can format Date field by using strftime function

example :

Time.now()
=> Wed Dec 12 15:48:59 +0530 2007

Time.now().strftime(“%d/%m/%y %H:%M”)
=> “12/12/07 15:50″

Here’s the (shortened) table for strftime.

%a weekday name.
%A weekday name (full).
%b month name.
%B month name (full).
%c date and time (locale)
%d day of month [01,31].
%H hour [00,23].
%I hour [01,12].
%j day of year [001,366].
%m month [01,12].
%M minute [00,59].
%p AM or PM
%S Second [00,61]
%U week of year (Sunday)[00,53].
w weekday [0(Sunday),6].
W week of year (Monday)[00,53].
x date (locale).
%X time (locale).
%y year [00,99].
%Y year [2000].
%Z timezone name.