Ruby String Format Time

Replace the 0 with a dash to get this effect.

Ruby string format time. As you can see with the strfttime method we changed the current time and date to another format. Time getlocal return a new time object in local zone time getutc return a new time object in utc formatting times and dates. You can also use this ruby string format trick to create aligned columns of text. We can use the datetime class for this.

If t is in utc time zone time localtime convert to local timezone. Time gmtime convert back to utc. A string object holds and manipulates an arbitrary sequence of bytes typically representing characters. It is good practice to avoid x and x because there are corresponding locale.

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. Because of aliasing issues users of strings should be aware of the methods that modify the contents of a string object. This method is locale independent. The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems.

Time is an abstraction of dates and times. If you want a date object to handle then the ruby date class can help you handle it but i belive that everything still needs to be done with time objects. String objects may be created using new or as literals. So the result may differ even if the same format string is used in other systems such as c.

Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output string. Typically methods with names ending in modify their receiver while those without a return a new. Replace the 0 with a dash to get this effect. You can create an object in ruby that stores the value of any date you want.

Here is one example showing a few. Strftime actually converts whatever data we specify as a string to the date format we want. Creating an object with a specific date. Formats date according to the directives in the given format string.

See ruby doc for date for details of the date class. See ruby doc for time for more output string formats the above should work if you want a string. Seconds s second of the minute 00 60 l millisecond of the second 000 999 s number of seconds since 1970 01 01 00 00 00 utc. Since ruby s time class implements a proleptic gregorian calendar and has no concept of calendar reform there s no way to.