From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T14:07:29+09:00
Subject: DateTime beauty

I've got strings created by doing something on the order of
DateTime.now.to_s stored away.

When I'm reading them out, and showing them to the user I want to see
something pretty like:

Sat Mar 10 at 12:34pm

Heres the code I came up with:

def timeFormat( in_str )
	the_date = DateTime.parse( in_str )
	the_date = the_date.new_offset( -7.0/24.0 )
	nice_date = ''
	nice_date += case the_date.cwday
		when 1; "Mon "
		when 2; "Tue "
		when 3; "Wed "
		when 4; "Thu "
		when 5; "Fri "
		when 6; "Sat "
		when 7; "Sun "
	end
	nice_date += case the_date.month
		when 1; "Jan "
		when 2; "Feb "
		when 3; "Mar "
		when 4; "Apr "
		when 5; "May "
		when 6; "Jun "
		when 7; "Jul "
		when 8; "Aug "
		when 9; "Sep "
		when 10; "Oct "
		when 11; "Nov "
		when 12; "Dec "
	end
	nice_date += the_date.day.to_s + ' at '
	the_minute = the_date.min
	if( the_minute < 10 )
		the_minute = "0"+the_minute.to_s
	else
		the_minute = the_minute.to_s
	end
	if( the_date.hour < 12 )
		nice_date += the_date.hour.to_s + ":" + the_minute + "am"
	elsif( the_date.hour > 12 )
		nice_date += ( the_date.hour-12 ).to_s + ":" + the_minute + "pm"
	else
		nice_date += ( the_date.hour ).to_s + ":" + the_minute + "pm"
	end
	nice_date
end

#Woah, ugly.
#Anyone spare a moment to show me the right way to do something like this?

#Thanks in advance
#-Harold