From: "Jan E." Date: 2012-03-19T08:02:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Making the string returned by Time.now look nicer Hi, You shouldn't. The to_s method is meant to show all data of the time object (including the time zone, milliseconds etc.). If you want to get a certain time format, use the strftime method: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Time.html#method-i-strftime now = Time.now puts now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.