From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T22:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for the wrong reason

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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:54 AM, James Edward Gray II
<james@graysoftinc.com>wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:16 AM, 7stud -- wrote:
>
>  No.  I think in ruby the code would be almost exactly the same--except
>> it's significantly harder to figure out in ruby because there is no
>> documentation about the format specifiers you can use with strftime()
>> and strptime().  Amazing, huh?
>>
>
> Amazingly wrong, yeah:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------- Time#strftime
>     time.strftime( string ) =3D> string
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Formats _time_ according to the directives in the given format
>     string. Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through
>     to the output string.
>
>     Format meaning:
>
>       %a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')
>       %A - The  full  weekday  name (``Sunday'')
>       %b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')
>       %B - The  full  month  name (``January'')
>       %c - The preferred local date and time representation
>       %d - Day of the month (01..31)
>       %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
>       %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
>       %j - Day of the year (001..366)
>       %m - Month of the year (01..12)
>       %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)
>       %p - Meridian indicator (``AM''  or  ``PM'')
>       %S - Second of the minute (00..60)
>       %U - Week  number  of the current year,
>               starting with the first Sunday as the first
>               day of the first week (00..53)
>       %W - Week  number  of the current year,
>               starting with the first Monday as the first
>               day of the first week (00..53)
>       %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
>       %x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
>       %X - Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
>       %y - Year without a century (00..99)
>       %Y - Year with century
>       %Z - Time zone name
>       %% - Literal ``%'' character
>
>        t =3D Time.now
>        t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")   #=3D> "Printed on 04/09/2003"
>        t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")            #=3D> "at 08:56AM"
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
If anyone is curious where the information James provided can be found:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=3DRuby+strftime&l=3D1

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