From: Vance A Heron <heron@...>
Date: 2005-05-15T17:53:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting date without leading zeros

Tom,
The best I could come up with is ...
heron $ irb
irb(main):001:0>  t=Time.local(2005,'jan',4,9,05,0,0)
=> Tue Jan 04 09:05:00 PST 2005
irb(main):002:0> t.strftime('%b %d %Y %H:%M').gsub(/ 0(\d\D)/, ' \1')
=> "Jan 4 2005 9:05"
irb(main):003:0>

Hope this helps.

Vance
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:10 +0900, Tom Reinhart wrote:
> I've tried to do the best research I can into this before posting here,
> but I have come up relatively short. I would like to format a DateTime
> such that the day of the month and hours that are less than ten are not
> prefixed with a leading zero (ex. Jan 4 9:30 and not Jan 04 09:30).
> 
> Is there any way to use DateTime#strftime to do this, or any
> alternative short of piecing the bits together with calls like
> thedate.month + " " + thedate.day?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Tom Reinhart
> tom@alltom.com
> http://alltom.com/
> 
>