From: aartist Date: 2005-05-26T06:25:18+09:00 Subject: Zerofy How I can zerofy the day and month. I like to add 0 in the beginning. Now an object cannot have 0 at the beginning unless it is a string object in this context. My code: class Fixnum def zerofy! self < 10 ? '0' + self.to_s : self.to_s end end t = Time.at(time.to_i) day,month,year = t.to_a[3..5] month.zerofy! doesn't work.