Question

The default rails datetime form builder provides the following form elements as select boxes…

[YYYY] [MONTH] [DD] - [HH]:[MM]

… in 24 hour time.

I would like to present my users with:

[MON.] [DD] [YYYY] - [HH]:[MM] [AM/PM]

How do you do that?

Answer 1

datetime_select helper has lots of different options. I never bothered to remember them all so I use this apidock page as a reference (datetime_select and date_select have similar options).

In you case, you’ll need to set :order array, :ampm to true, etc.

Edit: ok, I actually bothered to write the option hash you’ll need:

date_select("question", "answered_at", :ampm => true, :order => [:month, :day, :year], :use_short_month  => true)