Transforming Datetime into month, day and year?

Question

I can\'t seem to find this and I feel like it should be easy. In Ruby on Rails, how do I take:

2010-06-14 19:01:00 UTC

and turn it into

Answer 1

For future reference: Rails date time formats

Answer 2

Update that is working in Rails 5 :

<%= l @user.created_at, format: :short %>

Internationalize :

<%= I18n.l( @user.created_at, format: :short) %>

You can use :long instead of :short

Answer 3

I don't know for

June 14th, 2010

But if you want

June 14, 2010

Ref how do i get name of the month in ruby on Rails? or this

Just do

@date = Time.now
@date.strftime("%B %d, %Y")

And for suffix use following

@date.strftime("%B #{@date.day.ordinalize}, %Y") # >>> Gives `June 18th, 2010`

Answer 4

Just the other day there was a similar question. In my answer how do I get name of the month in ruby on Rails? I showed how you can add a custom to_s definition in your config/environment.rb file.

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
 :my_own_long_date_format => "%B %d, %Y")

Now you can call Time.now.to_s(:my_own_long_date_format) from any view to get:

June 15, 2010

Answer 5

Needs the Time module for Time.parse and ActiveSupport for Integer#ordinalize:

require 'time'
require 'active_support'

input = '2010-06-14 19:01:00 UTC'
t = Time.parse(input)
date = "%s %s, %d" % [t.strftime("%B"), t.day.ordinalize, t.year]
# => "June 14th, 2010"

Answer 6

You don't need to save it in a variable.

Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")  # 2013-01-08