Transforming DateTime in this format: Fri Mar 13 13:00:52 -0700 2009

Rails
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I’m trying to reformat the following DateTime: ‘Fri Mar 13 13:00:52
-0700
2009’ to be ‘2009-03-13 13:00:42’, but can’t quite seem to get it. I’ve
tried strftime(’%a %b %d %H %M %S -0700 %Y’) amongst other things and
google
isn’t helping…

Any advice?

2

You have to use double quotes

use strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Regards
Senthil Raja S P

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2009/3/14 senthil raja [email protected]

You have to use double quotes

use strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”)

It is not necessary to use double quotes, single quotes are ok. It is
only a
string.

isn’t helping…

What is it that you are calling strftime on (show us some code), and
what
result do you get when you call it as you have shown?

Colin

4

For eg) Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

will results 2009-03-16 10:00:42

5

Lee D’oéjgi wrote:

I’m trying to reformat the following DateTime: ‘Fri Mar 13 13:00:52
-0700
2009’ to be ‘2009-03-13 13:00:42’, but can’t quite seem to get it. I’ve
tried strftime(’%a %b %d %H %M %S -0700 %Y’) amongst other things and
google
isn’t helping…

Any advice?

If the value is array or string, first convert that into datetime format
and try with using strftime(needed format).