From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T10:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: formatting dates and times

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?
> 
ri Time#strftime