From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-07-18T12:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.format

why not just post the library at RAA or rubyforge?
-lv

nornagon wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> If there's one thing I miss about PHP, it must be date(). PHP's date()
> function is similar in purpose to Time.strftime, only with a whole
> slew of extra formatting options. For more info, see
> http://php.net/date
> 
> However, ruby seems to have no equivalent function. So I made my own.
> (Well, not entirely. I copied it from
> http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/07/dateInPython)
> 
> Attached. It works like this:
> 
> Time.now.format "jS M Y"     # => "18th Jul 2005"
> 
> I'd like to have this in the core, if people like it.