Module ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::DateTime::Conversions
In: vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb

Converting datetimes to formatted strings, dates, and times.

Methods

Public Instance methods

Returns the utc_offset as an +HH:MM formatted string. Examples:

  datetime = DateTime.civil(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, Rational(-6, 24))
  datetime.formatted_offset         # => "-06:00"
  datetime.formatted_offset(false)  # => "-0600"

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 58
58:         def formatted_offset(colon = true, alternate_utc_string = nil)
59:           utc? && alternate_utc_string || utc_offset.to_utc_offset_s(colon)
60:         end

Overrides the default inspect method with a human readable one, e.g., "Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:30:00 +0000"

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 63
63:         def readable_inspect
64:           to_s(:rfc822)
65:         end

Converts self to a Ruby Date object; time portion is discarded

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 68
68:         def to_date
69:           ::Date.new(year, month, day)
70:         end

To be able to keep Times, Dates and DateTimes interchangeable on conversions

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 79
79:         def to_datetime
80:           self
81:         end

Converts self to a floating-point number of seconds since the Unix epoch

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 89
89:         def to_f
90:           days_since_unix_epoch = self - ::DateTime.civil(1970)
91:           (days_since_unix_epoch * 86_400).to_f
92:         end

Convert to a formatted string. See Time::DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats.

This method is aliased to to_s.

Examples

  datetime = DateTime.civil(2007, 12, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0)   # => Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

  datetime.to_formatted_s(:db)            # => "2007-12-04 00:00:00"
  datetime.to_s(:db)                      # => "2007-12-04 00:00:00"
  datetime.to_s(:number)                  # => "20071204000000"
  datetime.to_formatted_s(:short)         # => "04 Dec 00:00"
  datetime.to_formatted_s(:long)          # => "December 04, 2007 00:00"
  datetime.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal)  # => "December 4th, 2007 00:00"
  datetime.to_formatted_s(:rfc822)        # => "Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000"

Adding your own datetime formats to to_formatted_s

DateTime formats are shared with Time. You can add your own to the Time::DATE_FORMATS hash. Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string or Proc instance that takes a time or datetime argument as the value.

  # config/initializers/time_formats.rb
  Time::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = "%B %Y"
  Time::DATE_FORMATS[:short_ordinal] = lambda { |time| time.strftime("%B #{time.day.ordinalize}") }

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 48
48:         def to_formatted_s(format = :default)
49:           return to_default_s unless formatter = ::Time::DATE_FORMATS[format]
50:           formatter.respond_to?(:call) ? formatter.call(self).to_s : strftime(formatter)
51:         end

Attempts to convert self to a Ruby Time object; returns self if out of range of Ruby Time class If self has an offset other than 0, self will just be returned unaltered, since there‘s no clean way to map it to a Time

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 74
74:         def to_time
75:           self.offset == 0 ? ::Time.utc_time(year, month, day, hour, min, sec) : self
76:         end

Converts datetime to an appropriate format for use in XML

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb, line 84
84:         def xmlschema
85:           strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z")
86:         end

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