From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-15T19:32:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting date without leading zeros

Hi --

On Sun, 15 May 2005, 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?

I think the %e and %l modifiers will give you the day of month and the
hour without 0's, but with spaces (i.e., space-padded).  Looking at
date/format.rb I don't see a way to suppress the padding.


David

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David A. Black
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