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Asked: 2026-06-14T03:48:27+00:00

I am trying to format my dates in the YYYY-MMM-DD manner. I have a

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I am trying to format my dates in the YYYY-MMM-DD manner. I have a en.yml file that has it specified.

formats:
  default: ! '%Y-%b-%d'

I have also created a date_time_formats.rb in my initializers folder. 

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = '%Y-%b-%d'
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:db]= '%Y-%b-%d'

I have also tried placing the same code directly in my environments.rb file. If I test out the defaults in the console Date.now.to_s then I get what I expect in return, “2012-Nov-10”, but in my view I always see “2012-11-10”.

I have tried saving it in the controller with Date.now and Date.now.to_s, but I still get the same result.

I must be missing something simple, so any help will be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found the answer to my question, although I dont understand why. Here is a Stack answer that explains it here

    Basically I added these 2 lines of code to my environment.rb.

    Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})
Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})

    And now everything works as planned. I looked for the documentation on the merge function to get a better understanding, but did not have any luck.

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