Question

In /initializers/time_formats.rb I have this:

Time::DATE_FORMATS[:profile] = "%m / %d / %Y"

However this obviously produces dates such as: 09 / 08 / 2001

Google tells me my best bet is to use some kind of gsub regular expression to edit out the 0’s. Is this true or is there a better alternative?

Answer 1

@date = Time.new
@date.month #=> 10
@date.day   #=> 7
@date.year  #=> 2009

if you want to use format string for some parts, you can do something like:

@date.strftime("%B #{@date.day.ordinalize}, %Y") #=> October 7th, 2009