There are various ways to format date and time.
Ruby string format time.
Time is an abstraction of dates and times.
Alternatively you can use the ljust and rjust methods from the string class to do the same.
Time getlocal return a new time object in local zone time getutc return a new time object in utc formatting times and dates.
This method is locale independent.
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.
So the result may differ even if the same format string is used in other systems such as c.
Replace the 0 with a dash to get this effect.
A string object holds and manipulates an arbitrary sequence of bytes typically representing characters.
See ruby doc for time for more output string formats the above should work if you want a string.
Creating an object with a specific date.
If t is in utc time zone time localtime convert to local timezone.
Because of aliasing issues users of strings should be aware of the methods that modify the contents of a string object.
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 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.
The directives begin with a percent character.
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.
See ruby doc for date for details of the date class.
You can also use this ruby string format trick to create aligned columns of text.
As you can see with the strfttime method we changed the current time and date to another format.
It is good practice to avoid x and x because there are corresponding locale.
We can use the datetime class for this.
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.
Formats date according to the directives in the given format string.
Since ruby s time class implements a proleptic gregorian calendar and has no concept of calendar reform there s no way to.
Time gmtime convert back to utc.
Here is one example showing a few.
