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Formatting a date with or without the time (See related posts)

Ruby on Rails

This helper returns the date (and possibly the time) formatted the way you want

def format_date(date, use_time = false)
    if use_time == true
        ampm = date.strftime("%p").downcase
        new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y at %I:%M" + ampm)
    else
        new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y")
    end
end
to ruby date helper by alexwilliams on Tue Dec 19 09:47:40 -0500 2006

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eulogist posts on Dec 21, 2006 at 09:42
...or alternatively, in your environment.rb:

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:foomat] = '%d/%m/%Y'
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:foomat] = '%A %B %d %Y at %I:%M%p'


Then in a view f.e.

@user.date_of_birth.to_s :foomat
Time.now.to_s :foomat


alexwilliams posts on Dec 21, 2006 at 22:13
Thanks!

Important to restart the web server for that work :)

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