You can use a method to get almost any format you need.
Ruby date now to string.
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.
You can see why when we transition across the reform date boundary.
Date and datetime classes are both from date library.
But underneath time class stores integer numbers which presents the seconds intervals since the epoch.
Usr bin ruby w time1 time new puts current time.
We imported datetime class from the datetime module.
There are 3 different classes in ruby that handle date and time.
Date and datetime class tadayoshi funaba 1998 2011 date provides two classes.
Time now utc ruby time formatting.
The string you pass to the strftime method may contain more than one format.
Time is an abstraction of dates and times.
The strftime method can be used to create formatted strings.
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.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time.
But you may want something else.
Time2 time now puts current time.
Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time.
Datetime now sat 19 nov 2011 18 54 13 utc 00 00 this shows what.
The datetime object containing current date and time is stored in now variable.
It s because the object of datetime class can access strftime method.
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.
Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.
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.
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.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time.
For example this shows what i don t want.
Something that adapts to your use case.
Terms and definitions some terms and definitions are based on iso 8601 and jis x 0301.
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.
Datetime ruby 2 6 1.
Time1 inspect time now is a synonym.
