The time class which we ll be using for this tutorial is from the time library while the date and datetime classes are from the date.
Ruby date now.
Calendar date the calendar date is a particular day of a calendar year identified by its ordinal number within a calendar month within that year.
The date class has no concept of minutes seconds or hours.
Now is a datetime class method which returns a datetime object denoting the given calendar date.
The main objective of this article is to facilitate the learners with the most common use of these datetime date and time classes of ruby language.
Terms and definitions some terms and definitions are based on iso 8601 and jis x 0301.
To use the date class you need to require date.
Datetime now sat 19 nov 2011 18 54 13 utc 00 00 this shows what i do want.
Ruby incorporates three library classes with which we can handle date and time.
Time1 inspect time now is a synonym.
Usr bin ruby w time1 time new puts current time.
Ruby datetime now function last updated.
Time now 1 day the date class.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time.
Now with this number we can sustract that from the current date.
An argument that all the celebrations that take place on the 23rd april in stratford upon avon are actually the wrong date since england is now using the gregorian calendar.
Datetime ruby 2 6 1.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time.
Date and datetime class tadayoshi funaba 1998 2011 date provides two classes.
You can see why when we transition across the reform date boundary.
Datetime now some operation 2011 11 06 00 00 00 utc ruby on rails ruby datetime.
Ruby date and time.
For example this shows what i don t want.
Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time.
48 000 local time with decimal fraction full stop as decimal sign extended h m s z 083748 0600 local time and the difference from utc basic t.
Now that you know how to create objects and classes in ruby we can move on to date and time formatting.
00 local time and the difference from utc extended y m dt h m s z 20071119 t083748 0600 date and time of day for calendar date.
In ruby the date library which includes the datetime date and time classes.
Time now 86400 if you are using rails then you can do this.
Time2 time now puts current time.