Rails - Jan 2008 - How can I get the date in UK format: 11th January 2008

This sounds trivial but it''s annoying me.

The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or 11th
January 2008.

However, date.to_s(:long) gives "January 11, 2008"

Is there a way to get different dates out from it?

Cheers
Theo
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

To get the 11th you''ll need to use Inflector.ordinalize.

t = Time.now
t.strftime("%A") + Inflector.ordinalize(t.strftime("%d")) +
" " +
t.strftime("%B %Y")

On Jan 11, 2008 1:37 PM, Philip Hallstrom
<rails-SUcgGwS4C16SUMMaM/qcSw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > This sounds trivial but it''s annoying me.
> >
> > The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or
11th
> > January 2008.
> >
> > However, date.to_s(:long) gives "January 11, 2008"
> >
> > Is there a way to get different dates out from it?
>
> See the strftime method.  I believe there is a way to add formats into
> Rails "to_s" extension as well, but you''d have to look
into that.  See
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions for more info.
>
>
>   time.strftime( string ) => string
>
> Formats time according to the directives in the given format string. Any
> text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output
> string.
>
> Format meaning:
>
>   %a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'''')
>   %A - The  full  weekday  name (``Sunday'''')
>   %b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'''')
>   %B - The  full  month  name (``January'''')
>   %c - The preferred local date and time representation
>   %d - Day of the month (01..31)
>   %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
>   %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
>   %j - Day of the year (001..366)
>   %m - Month of the year (01..12)
>   %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)
>   %p - Meridian indicator (``AM''''  or 
``PM'''')
>   %S - Second of the minute (00..60)
>   %U - Week  number  of the current year,
>           starting with the first Sunday as the first
>           day of the first week (00..53)
>   %W - Week  number  of the current year,
>           starting with the first Monday as the first
>           day of the first week (00..53)
>   %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
>   %x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
>   %X - Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
>   %y - Year without a century (00..99)
>   %Y - Year with century
>   %Z - Time zone name
>   %% - Literal ``%'''' character
>
>    t = Time.now
>    t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")   #=> "Printed on
04/09/2003"
>    t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")            #=> "at 08:56A
>
> >
>

-- 
Ryan Bigg
http://www.frozenplague.net
Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

> This sounds trivial but it''s annoying me.
>
> The UK format for a full date would be Friday 11th January 2008 or 11th
> January 2008.
>
> However, date.to_s(:long) gives "January 11, 2008"
>
> Is there a way to get different dates out from it?
See the strftime method.  I believe there is a way to add formats into 
Rails "to_s" extension as well, but you''d have to look into
that.  See
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions for more info.


   time.strftime( string ) => string

Formats time according to the directives in the given format string. Any 
text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output 
string.

Format meaning:

   %a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'''')
   %A - The  full  weekday  name (``Sunday'''')
   %b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'''')
   %B - The  full  month  name (``January'''')
   %c - The preferred local date and time representation
   %d - Day of the month (01..31)
   %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
   %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
   %j - Day of the year (001..366)
   %m - Month of the year (01..12)
   %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)
   %p - Meridian indicator (``AM''''  or 
``PM'''')
   %S - Second of the minute (00..60)
   %U - Week  number  of the current year,
           starting with the first Sunday as the first
           day of the first week (00..53)
   %W - Week  number  of the current year,
           starting with the first Monday as the first
           day of the first week (00..53)
   %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
   %x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
   %X - Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
   %y - Year without a century (00..99)
   %Y - Year with century
   %Z - Time zone name
   %% - Literal ``%'''' character

    t = Time.now
    t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")   #=> "Printed on
04/09/2003"
    t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")            #=> "at 08:56A

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Cheers to both of you!

I''ll give this a try :-)
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Okay,

I looked about and I just need to put this sort of thing in the 
environment.rb file:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
    :uk_long => lambda { |time| time.strftime("%A #{time.day.ordinalize}
%B %Y") }
)

The long_ordinal format already puts the ''th'' or whatever
after the day
so I just altered the code in the API for that version.

Cheers
Theo

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Theo Graham-brown wrote:
> Okay,
> 
> I looked about and I just need to put this sort of thing in the 
> environment.rb file:
> 
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
>     :uk_long => lambda { |time| time.strftime("%A
#{time.day.ordinalize}
> %B %Y") }
> )
> 
> The long_ordinal format already puts the ''th'' or whatever
after the day
> so I just altered the code in the API for that version.
> 
> Cheers
> Theo
Actually that solution didn''t work, but Ryan''s did.
I''ll have to
investigate further at some point.
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---