Question

I want a date time format which looks like this:- Tuesday, 27th December 2011 at 3:30 pm.

I made changed in the en.yml file to look like this

time:
    format:
        short_ref: "%A, %d %b at %I"

When I try to run the app I get this error : 18n::MissingTranslationData in Home#index

translation missing: en.time.formats.long

What might be causing this error?

Answer 1

Try using the strftime function in ruby. That gives you a lot of flexibility in manipulating the date formats of ruby.

You can also try something similar to this :

date = Time.now
date.strftime("%d %b %Y at %I:%M:%S %p")

This will return the date in this format :

27 Dec 2011 at 05:47:20 PM

Learn more about the strftime function in the Ruby API