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Formatting a date with or without the time

Ruby on Rails

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

   1  
   2  def format_date(date, use_time = false)
   3      if use_time == true
   4          ampm = date.strftime("%p").downcase
   5          new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y at %I:%M" + ampm)
   6      else
   7          new_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y")
   8      end
   9  end
to ruby date helper by alexwilliams on Dec 19, 2006 2 Comments
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