http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:04:49 GMT DZone Snippets: date code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2580 I needed a short and intuitive way of showing dates, so rather than just making something up I decided to steal Google's short date format from Gmail. I'm sure they did usability studies and whatnot. <br /> <br /><code>ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!( <br /> :gmail => lambda { |date| <br /> Time.now.beginning_of_day <= date ? <br /> "#{date.strftime('%I').to_i}:#{date.strftime('%M')} #{date.strftime('%p').downcase}" : <br /> Time.now.beginning_of_year <= date ? <br /> "#{date.strftime('%b')} #{date.day}" : <br /> "#{date.month}/#{date.day}/#{date.strftime('%y')}" <br /> } <br />) <br /> <br />ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!( <br /> :gmail => lambda { |date| <br /> Time.now.beginning_of_day <= date ? <br /> "#{date.strftime('%I').to_i}:#{date.strftime('%M')} #{date.strftime('%p').downcase}" : <br /> Time.now.beginning_of_year <= date ? <br /> "#{date.strftime('%b')} #{date.day}" : <br /> "#{date.month}/#{date.day}/#{date.strftime('%y')}" <br /> } <br />)</code> <br /> <br />Put this code in your "environmen.rb" file in your "RAILS_ROOT/config" directory or make a new Ruby script file containing it in your "RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers" directory. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:47:42 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2580 sporkyy (Todd Sayre)