Hi Erick I''ve done that using application helpers (app/helpers/application_helper.rb) so that you can spread them in yr code and, if you need to change the format, you do just it in one place. You can use them as <%= mydate(customer.created_on) %> for example. def mydate(d) d.strftime("%d/%m/%y") end def mytime(d) d.strftime("%H:%M") end def mydatetime(d) d.strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M") end Cheers, Andre Message: 7 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:54:23 -0300 From: "Erick Sasse" <esasse-/E1597aS9LRfJ/NunPodnw@public.gmane.org> Subject: RES: [Rails] Date and time display format To: <rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org> Message-ID: <20051014215742.7324E3A28E-hapML+lR5zQf0INCOvqR/pqQE7yCjDx5@public.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" And what about changing the default display format for time values? Erick