Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Ruby on Rails : Split Date Time

Formats time according to the directives in the given format string. Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output string.

t = Time.now
t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")
t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")
#=> "Printed on 04/09/2003"
#=> "at 08:56AM"



%a
- The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')

%A
- The full weekday name (``Sunday'')

%b
- The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')

%B
- The full month name (``January'')

%c
- The preferred local date and time representation

%d
- Day of the month (01..31)

%H
- Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)

%I
- Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)

%j
- Day of the year (001..366)

%m
- Month of the year (01..12)

%M
- Minute of the hour (00..59)

%p
- Meridian indicator (``AM'' or ``PM'')

%S
- Second of the minute (00..60)

%U
- Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53)


%W
- Week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week (00..53)


%w
- Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)

%x
- Preferred representation for the date alone, no time

%X
- Preferred representation for the time alone, no date

%y
- Year without a century (00..99)

%Y
- Year with century

%Z
- Time zone name

%%
- Literal ``%'' character


Taken From : http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000255

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