Returns true
if self
is a Thursday, false
otherwise.
Returns true
if self
is a Saturday, false
otherwise.
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.
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.
Equivalent to strftime
with argument '%a, %d %b %Y %T GMT'
; see Formats for Dates and Times:
Date.new(2001, 2, 3).httpdate # => "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT"
Creates a DateTime
object denoting the given ordinal date.
DateTime.ordinal(2001,34) #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 ...> DateTime.ordinal(2001,34,4,5,6,'+7') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.ordinal(2001,-332,-20,-55,-54,'+7') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...>
Creates a DateTime
object denoting the given week date.
DateTime.commercial(2001) #=> #<DateTime: 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 ...> DateTime.commercial(2002) #=> #<DateTime: 2001-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 ...> DateTime.commercial(2001,5,6,4,5,6,'+7') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...>
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.
Creates a new DateTime
object by parsing from a string according to some RFC 2616 format.
DateTime.httpdate('Sat, 03 Feb 2001 04:05:06 GMT') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+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.
Raises ‘ArgumentError` if the date or format is invalid.
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.
Parses date
as an HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616 and converts it to a Time
object.
ArgumentError
is raised if date
is not compliant with RFC 2616 or if the Time
class cannot represent specified date.
See httpdate
for more information on this format.
require 'time' Time.httpdate("Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:26:12 GMT") #=> 2011-10-06 02:26:12 UTC
You must require ‘time’ to use this method.
Returns a string which represents the time as RFC 1123 date of HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616:
day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss GMT
Note that the result is always UTC (GMT).
require 'time' t = Time.now t.httpdate # => "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:26:12 GMT"
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
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"
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"
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 the integer month of the year for self
, in range (1..12):
t = Time.new(2000, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) # => 2000-01-02 03:04:05 +000006 t.mon # => 1
Returns true
if self
represents a Thursday, false
otherwise:
t = Time.utc(2000, 1, 6) # => 2000-01-06 00:00:00 UTC t.thursday? # => true
Related: Time#friday?
, Time#saturday?
, Time#sunday?
.
Returns true
if self
represents a Saturday, false
otherwise:
t = Time.utc(2000, 1, 1) # => 2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC t.saturday? # => true
Related: Time#sunday?
, Time#monday?
, Time#tuesday?
.
Returns a string representation of self
, formatted according to the given string format
. See Formats for Dates and Times.