Note: This method recognizes many forms in string, but it is not a validator. For formats, see “Specialized Format Strings” in Formats for Dates and Times
If string does not specify a valid date, the result is unpredictable; consider using Date._strptime instead.
Returns a hash of values parsed from string:
Date._parse('2001-02-03') # => {:year=>2001, :mon=>2, :mday=>3}
If comp is true and the given year is in the range (0..99), the current century is supplied; otherwise, the year is taken as given:
Date._parse('01-02-03', true) # => {:year=>2001, :mon=>2, :mday=>3} Date._parse('01-02-03', false) # => {:year=>1, :mon=>2, :mday=>3}
See argument limit.
Related: Date.parse(returns a Date object).
Note: This method recognizes many forms in string, but it is not a validator. For formats, see “Specialized Format Strings” in Formats for Dates and Times If string does not specify a valid date, the result is unpredictable; consider using Date._strptime instead.
Returns a new Date object with values parsed from string:
Date.parse('2001-02-03') # => #<Date: 2001-02-03> Date.parse('20010203') # => #<Date: 2001-02-03> Date.parse('3rd Feb 2001') # => #<Date: 2001-02-03>
If comp is true and the given year is in the range (0..99), the current century is supplied; otherwise, the year is taken as given:
Date.parse('01-02-03', true) # => #<Date: 2001-02-03> Date.parse('01-02-03', false) # => #<Date: 0001-02-03>
See:
Argument start.
Argument limit.
Related: Date._parse (returns a hash).
Returns the Julian start date for calendar reform; if not an infinity, the returned value is suitable for passing to Date#jd:
d = Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::ITALY) s = d.start # => 2299161.0 Date.jd(s).to_s # => "1582-10-15" d = Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::ENGLAND) s = d.start # => 2361222.0 Date.jd(s).to_s # => "1752-09-14" Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::GREGORIAN).start # => -Infinity Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::JULIAN).start # => Infinity
See argument start.
Returns a string representation of the date in self, formatted according the given format:
Date.new(2001, 2, 3).strftime # => "2001-02-03"
For other formats, see Formats for Dates and Times.
Equivalent to strftime with argument '%a %b %e %T %Y' (or its shorthand form '%c'):
Date.new(2001, 2, 3).asctime # => "Sat Feb 3 00:00:00 2001"
See asctime.
Date#ctime is an alias for Date#asctime.
Equivalent to strftime with argument '%a %b %e %T %Y' (or its shorthand form '%c'):
Date.new(2001, 2, 3).asctime # => "Sat Feb 3 00:00:00 2001"
See asctime.
Date#ctime is an alias for Date#asctime.
Parses the given representation of date and time with the given template, and returns a hash of parsed elements. _strptime does not support specification of flags and width unlike strftime.
See also strptime(3) and strftime.
Parses the given representation of date and time with the given template, and creates a DateTime object. strptime does not support specification of flags and width unlike strftime.
DateTime.strptime('2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('03-02-2001 04:05:06 PM', '%d-%m-%Y %I:%M:%S %p') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T16:05:06+00:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('2001-W05-6T04:05:06+07:00', '%G-W%V-%uT%H:%M:%S%z') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('2001 04 6 04 05 06 +7', '%Y %U %w %H %M %S %z') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('2001 05 6 04 05 06 +7', '%Y %W %u %H %M %S %z') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('-1', '%s') #=> #<DateTime: 1969-12-31T23:59:59+00:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('-1000', '%Q') #=> #<DateTime: 1969-12-31T23:59:59+00:00 ...> DateTime.strptime('sat3feb014pm+7', '%a%d%b%y%H%p%z') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T16:00:00+07:00 ...>
See also strptime(3) and strftime.
Parses the given representation of date and time, and creates a DateTime object.
This method does not function as a validator. If the input string does not match valid formats strictly, you may get a cryptic result. Should consider to use DateTime.strptime instead of this method as possible.
If the optional second argument is true and the detected year is in the range “00” to “99”, makes it full.
DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.parse('20010203T040506+0700') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.parse('3rd Feb 2001 04:05:06 PM') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T16:05:06+00:00 ...>
Raise an ArgumentError when the string length is longer than limit. You can stop this check by passing limit: nil, but note that it may take a long time to parse.
Returns a string representation of self, formatted according the given +format:
DateTime.now.strftime # => "2022-07-01T11:03:19-05:00"
For other formats, see Formats for Dates and Times.
Takes a string representation of a Time and attempts to parse it using a heuristic.
This method **does not** function as a validator. If the input string does not match valid formats strictly, you may get a cryptic result. Should consider to use ‘Time.strptime` instead of this method as possible.
require 'time' Time.parse("2010-10-31") #=> 2010-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
Any missing pieces of the date are inferred based on the current date.
require 'time' # assuming the current date is "2011-10-31" Time.parse("12:00") #=> 2011-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
We can change the date used to infer our missing elements by passing a second object that responds to mon, day and year, such as Date, Time or DateTime. We can also use our own object.
require 'time' class MyDate attr_reader :mon, :day, :year def initialize(mon, day, year) @mon, @day, @year = mon, day, year end end d = Date.parse("2010-10-28") t = Time.parse("2010-10-29") dt = DateTime.parse("2010-10-30") md = MyDate.new(10,31,2010) Time.parse("12:00", d) #=> 2010-10-28 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", t) #=> 2010-10-29 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", dt) #=> 2010-10-30 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", md) #=> 2010-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
If a block is given, the year described in date is converted by the block. This is specifically designed for handling two digit years. For example, if you wanted to treat all two digit years prior to 70 as the year 2000+ you could write this:
require 'time' Time.parse("01-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 2001-10-31 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("70-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 1970-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
If the upper components of the given time are broken or missing, they are supplied with those of now. For the lower components, the minimum values (1 or 0) are assumed if broken or missing. For example:
require 'time' # Suppose it is "Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 2001" now and # your time zone is EST which is GMT-5. now = Time.parse("Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 2001") Time.parse("16:30", now) #=> 2001-11-29 16:30:00 -0500 Time.parse("7/23", now) #=> 2001-07-23 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("Aug 31", now) #=> 2001-08-31 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("Aug 2000", now) #=> 2000-08-01 00:00:00 -0500
Since there are numerous conflicts among locally defined time zone abbreviations all over the world, this method is not intended to understand all of them. For example, the abbreviation “CST” is used variously as:
-06:00 in America/Chicago, -05:00 in America/Havana, +08:00 in Asia/Harbin, +09:30 in Australia/Darwin, +10:30 in Australia/Adelaide, etc.
Based on this fact, this method only understands the time zone abbreviations described in RFC 822 and the system time zone, in the order named. (i.e. a definition in RFC 822 overrides the system time zone definition.) The system time zone is taken from Time.local(year, 1, 1).zone and Time.local(year, 7, 1).zone. If the extracted time zone abbreviation does not match any of them, it is ignored and the given time is regarded as a local time.
ArgumentError is raised if Date._parse cannot extract information from date or if the Time class cannot represent specified date.
This method can be used as a fail-safe for other parsing methods as:
Time.rfc2822(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.httpdate(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.xmlschema(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
A failure of Time.parse should be checked, though.
You must require ‘time’ to use this method.
Works similar to parse except that instead of using a heuristic to detect the format of the input string, you provide a second argument that describes the format of the string.
If a block is given, the year described in date is converted by the block. For example:
Time.strptime(...) {|y| y < 100 ? (y >= 69 ? y + 1900 : y + 2000) : y}
Below is a list of the formatting options:
The abbreviated weekday name (“Sun”)
The full weekday name (“Sunday”)
The abbreviated month name (“Jan”)
The full month name (“January”)
The preferred local date and time representation
Century (20 in 2009)
Day of the month (01..31)
Date (%m/%d/%y)
Day of the month, blank-padded ( 1..31)
Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format)
The last two digits of the commercial year
The week-based year according to ISO-8601 (week 1 starts on Monday and includes January 4)
Equivalent to %b
Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
Day of the year (001..366)
hour, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23)
hour, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..12)
Millisecond of the second (000..999)
Month of the year (01..12)
Minute of the hour (00..59)
Newline (n)
Fractional seconds digits
Meridian indicator (“AM” or “PM”)
Meridian indicator (“am” or “pm”)
time, 12-hour (same as %I:%M:%S %p)
time, 24-hour (%H:%M)
Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Second of the minute (00..60)
Tab character (t)
time, 24-hour (%H:%M:%S)
Day of the week as a decimal, Monday being 1. (1..7)
Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
VMS date (%e-%b-%Y)
Week number of year according to ISO 8601 (01..53)
Week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
Year without a century (00..99)
Year which may include century, if provided
Time zone as hour offset from UTC (e.g. +0900)
Time zone name
Literal “%” character
date(1) (%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y)
require 'time' Time.strptime("2000-10-31", "%Y-%m-%d") #=> 2000-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
You must require ‘time’ to use this method.
With no argument given:
Returns self if self is a local time.
Otherwise returns a new Time in the user’s local timezone:
t = Time.utc(2000, 1, 1, 20, 15, 1) # => 2000-01-01 20:15:01 UTC t.localtime # => 2000-01-01 14:15:01 -0600
With argument zone given, returns the new Time object created by converting self to the given time zone:
t = Time.utc(2000, 1, 1, 20, 15, 1) # => 2000-01-01 20:15:01 UTC t.localtime("-09:00") # => 2000-01-01 11:15:01 -0900
For forms of argument zone, see Timezone Specifiers.
Returns self, converted to the UTC timezone:
t = Time.new(2000) # => 2000-01-01 00:00:00 -0600 t.utc? # => false t.utc # => 2000-01-01 06:00:00 UTC t.utc? # => true
Time#gmtime is an alias for Time#utc.
Related: Time#getutc (returns a new converted Time object).
Returns a string representation of self, formatted by strftime('%a %b %e %T %Y') or its shorthand version strftime('%c'); see Formats for Dates and Times:
t = Time.new(2000, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 0.5) t.ctime # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000" t.strftime('%a %b %e %T %Y') # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000" t.strftime('%c') # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000"
Time#asctime is an alias for Time#ctime.
Related: Time#to_s, Time#inspect:
t.inspect # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +000001" t.to_s # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59 +0000"
Returns a string representation of self, formatted by strftime('%a %b %e %T %Y') or its shorthand version strftime('%c'); see Formats for Dates and Times:
t = Time.new(2000, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 0.5) t.ctime # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000" t.strftime('%a %b %e %T %Y') # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000" t.strftime('%c') # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000"
Time#asctime is an alias for Time#ctime.
Related: Time#to_s, Time#inspect:
t.inspect # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +000001" t.to_s # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59 +0000"
Returns a string representation of self, formatted according to the given string format. See Formats for Dates and Times.
Like Time.utc, except that the returned Time object has the local timezone, not the UTC timezone:
# With seven arguments. Time.local(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) # => 0000-01-02 03:04:05.000006 -0600 # With exactly ten arguments. Time.local(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) # => 0005-04-03 02:01:00 -0600
Returns pathname configuration variable using fpathconf().
name should be a constant under Etc which begins with PC_.
The return value is an integer or nil. nil means indefinite limit. (fpathconf() returns -1 but errno is not set.)
require 'etc' IO.pipe {|r, w| p w.pathconf(Etc::PC_PIPE_BUF) #=> 4096 }
Get the internal timeout duration or nil if it was not set.
Set the internal timeout to the specified duration or nil. The timeout applies to all blocking operations where possible.
This affects the following methods (but is not limited to): gets, puts, read, write, wait_readable and wait_writable. This also affects blocking socket operations like Socket#accept and Socket#connect.
Some operations like File#open and IO#close are not affected by the timeout. A timeout during a write operation may leave the IO in an inconsistent state, e.g. data was partially written. Generally speaking, a timeout is a last ditch effort to prevent an application from hanging on slow I/O operations, such as those that occur during a slowloris attack.
Returns a new regexp that is the union of the given patterns:
r = Regexp.union(%w[cat dog]) # => /cat|dog/ r.match('cat') # => #<MatchData "cat"> r.match('dog') # => #<MatchData "dog"> r.match('cog') # => nil
For each pattern that is a string, Regexp.new(pattern) is used:
Regexp.union('penzance') # => /penzance/ Regexp.union('a+b*c') # => /a\+b\*c/ Regexp.union('skiing', 'sledding') # => /skiing|sledding/ Regexp.union(['skiing', 'sledding']) # => /skiing|sledding/
For each pattern that is a regexp, it is used as is, including its flags:
Regexp.union(/foo/i, /bar/m, /baz/x) # => /(?i-mx:foo)|(?m-ix:bar)|(?x-mi:baz)/ Regexp.union([/foo/i, /bar/m, /baz/x]) # => /(?i-mx:foo)|(?m-ix:bar)|(?x-mi:baz)/
With no arguments, returns /(?!)/:
Regexp.union # => /(?!)/
If any regexp pattern contains captures, the behavior is unspecified.
It returns the timeout interval for Regexp matching in second. nil means no default timeout configuration.
This configuration is per-object. The global configuration set by Regexp.timeout= is ignored if per-object configuration is set.
re = Regexp.new("^a*b?a*$", timeout: 1) re.timeout #=> 1.0 re =~ "a" * 100000 + "x" #=> regexp match timeout (RuntimeError)
It returns the current default timeout interval for Regexp matching in second. nil means no default timeout configuration.
It sets the default timeout interval for Regexp matching in second. nil means no default timeout configuration. This configuration is process-global. If you want to set timeout for each Regexp, use timeout keyword for Regexp.new.
Regexp.timeout = 1 /^a*b?a*$/ =~ "a" * 100000 + "x" #=> regexp match timeout (RuntimeError)