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Asked: 2026-05-22T19:37:49+00:00

I’m trying to parse a date like: 2011-05-21 04:20:46.011 into a Time object in

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I’m trying to parse a date like: 2011-05-21 04:20:46.011 into a Time object in Rails. So far I have the following:

Time.strptime("2011-05-21 04:20:46.011", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N")

But it doesn’t seem to like the “%3N” at the end. How do I parse this date?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use parse:

    x = Time.parse("2011-05-21 04:20:46.011", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N")
# => 2011-05-21 04:20:46 -0700
x.usec
# => 11000

    In many case you don’t need to pass in the format either:

    x = Time.parse("2011-05-21 04:20:46.011")
# => 2011-05-21 04:20:46 -0700
x.usec
# => 11000
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