# Hai brothers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hai-brothers/113656>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 3, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hai-brothers/113656 "2007-09-03T15:41:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sreeki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@sreeki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sreeki)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hai-brothers/113656/1 "2007-09-03T15:41:53Z")

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Hi brothers i am sreekanth. today i joined this group.

Actually my problem is i need to display the date in a select list. but  
default date format is yyyy-mm-dd, how come i customize this format, as  
i am using acts\_as\_dropable plug to get the date…

Thank you  
sreeki.

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**Author:** ![sreeki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@sreeki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sreeki)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hai-brothers/113656/2 "2007-09-03T17:48:05Z")

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Sree Kanth wrote:

> Hi brothers i am sreekanth. today i joined this group.
> 
> Actually my problem is i need to display the date in a select list. but  
> default date format is yyyy-mm-dd, how come i customize this format, as  
> i am using acts\_as\_dropable plug to get the date…
> 
> Thank you  
> sreeki.

Look up strftime in the Ruby documentation.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
9/3/2007 | 11:46 PM.