Question

If I have @today = Date.today.to_s, how do I convert @today into UTC (with the appropriate date only)?
Here I need is only date for example 2011-03-08 ie 08 March 2011. Please suggest something ?

Acutally I am looking for Yesterday date ??

Answer 1

You’ll need to convert it to a Time object (or just use Time anyway) and then call Time#utc:

irb > Time.now
 => Tue Mar 08 15:32:36 +1100 2011 
irb > Time.now.utc
 => Tue Mar 08 04:32:40 UTC 2011 

You can then format it however you need it:

irb > @today = Time.now.utc
 => Tue Mar 08 04:34:25 UTC 2011 
irb > @today.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 => "2011-03-08"