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By: Time parsing issue – Afraha | Our Own Tiny Planet

Time parsing issue – Afraha | Our Own Tiny Planet — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:27:25 +0000

[...] Time parsing issue 2009/7/11 Älphä Blüë : > > I had been looking at: > > http://www.nullislove.com/2007/05/16/time-for-strftime/ [...]

By: Bill Istikopoulos

Bill Istikopoulos — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:06:40 +0000

Right, I guess one could add the time difference according to the country of the visitor. Thanks for clarifying that.

By: Kevin Skoglund

Kevin Skoglund — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:59:10 +0000

A timestamp can be either for the server or the client. When you call time() or Time.now(), you are getting the server time. You would need to adjust that time if you wanted to localize it for a client abroad.

By: Bill Istikopoulos

Bill Istikopoulos — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:40:45 +0000

Thanks for this great guide.

I just have a quick question. Is the timestamp grabbed from the server or the client? Could be a problem if it’s server time and the app is hosted abroad.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:50:27 +0000

%u does not work in Ruby it seems.

By: Kevin Skoglund

Kevin Skoglund — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:21:09 +0000

@danielvw: That is the correct way to solve it. Or just don’t let it be null to start with.

By: danielvw

danielvw — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:50:58 +0000

dear kevin,

timestring = timestamp.strftime(”The date is %m/%d/%y”) will result an error if the “timestamp” is null.

i overcome it with this code:
if timestamp
timestring = timestamp.strftime(”The date is %m/%d/%y”)
end

it solved the problem, but is there any smarter way to do this?;p

thanks before.

By: Kevin Skoglund

Kevin Skoglund — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:07:50 +0000

Excellent tip, Brian. Thanks!

By: Brian Mulloy

Brian Mulloy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:26 +0000

fyi, DateTime objects support stripping leading zeros. It looks like this:

timestamp = DateTime.now()
timestring = timestamp.strftime(”The date is %-1m/%-1d/%y”)

-b

By: Zaheer M K

Zaheer M K — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:37:53 +0000

Hi Kevin Skoglund, Excellent! It was very nice of you to put this together and also offer a file for download for offline use. Thank you so much. And keep going!