How to truncate a ruby time down to the second minute hour or day may 18 2010 brian morearty 4 comments sometimes you have a time or datetime object in ruby and you want to zero out the milliseconds seconds minutes or hours.
Ruby time now seconds.
Ruby time to i function last updated.
Ruby date and time.
Usr bin ruby w time1 time new puts current time.
But you may want something else.
Now that you know how to create objects and classes in ruby we can move on to date and time formatting.
T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc.
Time now utc ruby time formatting.
You can use a method to get almost any format you need.
Time1 inspect time now is a synonym.
Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time.
The syntax to create an object in ruby is.
07 01 2020 time to i is a time class method which returns the value of time as an integer number of seconds since the epoch.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time.
Time2 time now puts current time.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time.
Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.
Ruby incorporates three library classes with which we can handle date and time.
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.