I am calling the date a record was created at in a basic app running Rails 3.1.
<%= @issue.created_at %>
The above outputs the following timestamp:
2011-09-10 14:44:24 UTC
What is the simplest way of altering the way this displays? I would like something like this:
10 Sept. 2011
and then somehow call it again with a different format:
14:44
so I can call it twice and merge the two together:
10 Sept. 2011
14:44
The reason I want to call it twice rather than create a helper to format a two line date/time is to allow me to call the date in some places and just the time in others.
I would use I18n. Take a look at some example http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#adding-date-time-formats. It’s a clean and flexible way of formatting dates and times.