This sounds trivial but it’s annoying me.
The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or 11th
January 2008.
However, date.to_s(:long) gives “January 11, 2008”
Is there a way to get different dates out from it?
Cheers
Theo
This sounds trivial but it’s annoying me.
The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or 11th
January 2008.
However, date.to_s(:long) gives “January 11, 2008”
Is there a way to get different dates out from it?
Cheers
Theo
This sounds trivial but it’s annoying me.
The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or 11th
January 2008.However, date.to_s(:long) gives “January 11, 2008”
Is there a way to get different dates out from it?
See the strftime method. I believe there is a way to add formats into
Rails “to_s” extension as well, but you’d have to look into that. See
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions for more info.
time.strftime( string ) => 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 = Time.now
t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y") #=> "Printed on 04/09/2003"
t.strftime("at %I:%M%p") #=> "at 08:56A
To get the 11th you’ll need to use Inflector.ordinalize.
t = Time.now
t.strftime(“%A”) + Inflector.ordinalize(t.strftime(“%d”)) + " " +
t.strftime(“%B %Y”)
On Jan 11, 2008 1:37 PM, Philip H. [email protected] wrote:
See the strftime method. I believe there is a way to add formats into
Format meaning:
%m - Month of the year (01…12)
%x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
–
Ryan B.
Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email.
Cheers to both of you!
I’ll give this a try
Okay,
I looked about and I just need to put this sort of thing in the
environment.rb file:
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
:uk_long => lambda { |time| time.strftime("%A #{time.day.ordinalize}
%B %Y") }
)
The long_ordinal format already puts the ‘th’ or whatever after the day
so I just altered the code in the API for that version.
Cheers
Theo
Theo Graham-brown wrote:
Okay,
I looked about and I just need to put this sort of thing in the
environment.rb file:ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
:uk_long => lambda { |time| time.strftime("%A #{time.day.ordinalize}
%B %Y") }
)The long_ordinal format already puts the ‘th’ or whatever after the day
so I just altered the code in the API for that version.Cheers
Theo
Actually that solution didn’t work, but Ryan’s did. I’ll have to
investigate further at some point.
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