From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T09:37:48+09:00
Subject: Re: formatting dates and times


On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:28 AM, rtilley wrote:

> In Python, I do this to format date and time in a certain fashion.
>
>  q = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', time.localtime())
>  r = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S', time.localtime())
>
> I am formatting by YYYY-MM-DD and HH:MM:SS (I keep dashes between  
> the YYYY MM DD and colons between HH MM SS.
>
> How is this done in Ruby?

See Time#strftime:

Time.new.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') -> "2006-03-14"

-- Daniel