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Asked: 2026-05-12T08:09:11+00:00

How to properly extract a time only from the datetime object ( post.created_at ,

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How to properly extract a time only from the datetime object (post.created_at, to be precise) with/without the influence of TimeZone? How to extract the day, month and year values? How to extract the day/month/year via a custom pattern (is it possible)?

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    Time in String format:

    post.created_at.strftime("FORMAT STRING HERE")
# Without the influence of time-zone: I take it that you want UTC
post.created_at.utc.strftime("FORMAT STRING HERE")

    Link for the strftime documentation:
    http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#method-i-strftime

    For getting the hour, minute and second values:

    post.created_at.hour
post.created_at.min
post.created_at.sec
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