From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T22:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: calendar event

On 09.04.2009 15:39, Sushrut Sathe wrote:
> In my application i use such table(table as follows) in which the
> Date_time field by default takes (2001-07-21 11:31:00 UTC)such time
> format but i want only date, then how i remove the created_time &
> updated_time.

Then you should use class Date.

require 'date'
puts Date.today

> Also how to change the format of date i want dd/mm/yyyy

You should make the distinction between internal and external 
representation: internally you use a data type that properly abstracts 
"dates".  For output you transform this into a suitable format.

irb(main):008:0> Date.today.strftime "%d/%m/%Y"
=> "09/04/2009"

If you internally need also time then you can use class DateTime and 
apply the same formatting:

irb(main):010:0> DateTime.now.strftime "%d/%m/%Y"
=> "09/04/2009"

HTH

Kind regards

	robert