I want to print my timestamp objects in a specific format. I want to print
a date like this:
Sunday, January 8 2006
I don''t want it to print January 08.
For the time, I want it to look like this:
9:08 pm
Not 09:08 and lower case PM. I created these methods:
def format_date(date)
date.strftime("%A, %B #{date.day} #{date.year}")
end
def format_time(date)
if date.hour > 12
hour = date.hour - 12
elsif date.hour == 0
hour = 12
else
hour = date.hour
end
time = "#{hour}:#{date.min} "
if date.hour > 12
time += "pm"
else
time += "am"
end
end
There has to be a better way to do this. Any ideas?
BTW - How do I know what the datatype of the properties that are created by
AcitveRecord::Base are?
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Paul Barry wrote:> I want to print my timestamp objects in a specific format. I want to > print > a date like this: > > Sunday, January 8 2006 > > I don''t want it to print January 08. > > For the time, I want it to look like this: > > 9:08 pm > > Not 09:08 and lower case PM. I created these methods: >Try this for the time format def format_time(date) date.strftime("%I:%M %p") =~ /(0*)([\d:]+) (\w+)/ "#{$2} #{$3.downcase}" end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Try this; it makes your view code very clean and dry. http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/11/20/defining_custom_date_time_formats On 1/8/06, Paul Barry <mail@paulbarry.com> wrote:> I want to print my timestamp objects in a specific format. I want to print > a date like this: > > Sunday, January 8 2006 > > I don''t want it to print January 08. > > For the time, I want it to look like this: > > 9:08 pm > > Not 09:08 and lower case PM. I created these methods: > > def format_date(date) > date.strftime("%A, %B #{date.day} #{date.year}") > end > > def format_time(date) > if date.hour > 12 > hour = date.hour - 12 > elsif date.hour == 0 > hour = 12 > else > hour = date.hour > end > time = "#{hour}:#{date.min} " > if date.hour > 12 > time += "pm" > else > time += "am" > end > end > > There has to be a better way to do this. Any ideas? > > BTW - How do I know what the datatype of the properties that are created by > AcitveRecord::Base are? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >
Paul Barry wrote:> I want to print my timestamp objects in a specific format. I want to > print > a date like this: > > Sunday, January 8 2006 > > I don''t want it to print January 08. > > For the time, I want it to look like this: > > 9:08 pm > > Not 09:08 and lower case PM. I created these methods: > > def format_date(date) > date.strftime("%A, %B #{date.day} #{date.year}") > end > > There has to be a better way to do this. Any ideas?Check out ActiveSupport Time and Date conversion modules. They extend to_s to take a symbol specifying the format to use, eg "Time.now.to_s(:db)" converts the time to the canonical database representation of a datetime. Then you can put something like the following in your environment.rb file: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!( :date_time12 => "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M%p", :date_time24 => "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M" ) The use a regexp and .downcase to finish the job.> BTW - How do I know what the datatype of the properties that are created > by > AcitveRecord::Base are?AR::columns returns an array of columns. Try printing MyModel.columns.collect {|c| [c.name, c.type]} -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Use a regexp to find 08 and replace it with 8? There''s not a cleaner way to do that? On 1/9/06, Joshua Susser <joshua@tiralorn.com> wrote:> > > The use a regexp and .downcase to finish the job. > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060109/25fca03c/attachment.html
Also, when I print Time.zone, I get "Eastern Standard Time". How can I get "EST" instead? On 1/9/06, Paul Barry <mail@paulbarry.com> wrote:> > Use a regexp to find 08 and replace it with 8? There''s not a cleaner way > to do that? > > On 1/9/06, Joshua Susser < joshua@tiralorn.com> wrote: > > > > > > The use a regexp and .downcase to finish the job. > > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060109/9a39fc2d/attachment.html