DZone Snippets: date code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:47:45 GMT DZone Snippets: date code Formatting a date with or without the time http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3168 Ruby on Rails <br /> <br />This helper returns the date (and possibly the time) formatted the way you want <br /> <br /><code> <br />def format_date(date, use_time = false) <br /> if use_time == true <br /> ampm = date.strftime("%p").downcase <br /> new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y at %I:%M" + ampm) <br /> else <br /> new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y") <br /> end <br />end <br /></code> Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:47:40 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3168 alexwilliams (Alex Williams)