Question

I am building an iOS app using Rubymotion.

I get data from a Rails 3.2.8 API and I want to convert the timestamp I get (2013-01-24T23:42:59Z) to 2013-01-24 23:42:59. How can I do that with Ruby?

What is this format called (2013-01-24T23:42:59Z)?

Answer 1

Perhaps it is called ISO 8601. You can accept this form and turn it into a time object by doing this:

require "time"
Time.iso8601("2013-01-24T23:42:59Z")
# => 2013-01-24 23:42:59 UTC