Time (Class)

In: basiclibrary.rb
Parent: Object

Extension to the Time class

Methods

custom_format  

Constants

MONTH_NAMES = %w| January February March April May June July August September October November December |
DAY_NAMES = %w| Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday |

Public Instance methods

custom_format(formatString)

Replaces every token in formatString with its corresponding value. See the table below. 

   token:     description:             example:
   #YYYY#     4-digit year             2004
   #YY#       2-digit year             04
   #MMMM#     full month name          February
   #MMM#      3-letter month name      Feb
   #MM#       2-digit month number     02
   #M#        month number             2
   #DDDD#     full weekday name        Wednesday
   #DDD#      3-letter weekday name    Wed
   #DD#       2-digit day number       09
   #D#        day number               9
   #th#       day ordinal suffix       nd
   #hhh#      military/24-based hour   17
   #hh#       2-digit hour             05
   #h#        hour                     5
   #mm#       2-digit minute           07
   #m#        minute                   7
   #ss#       2-digit second           09
   #s#        second                   9
   #ampm#     "am" or "pm"             pm
   #AMPM#     "AM" or "PM"             PM

Non-tokens are left untouched in the output string. 

   time = Time.parse('2/3/2004 15:37')
   time.custom_format('#DDDD#, #MMMM# #D##th# @ #h#:#mm##ampm#')
     =>  'Tuesday, February 3rd @ 3:37pm'
   time.custom_format('#YYYY#-#MMM#-#D#')
     =>  '2004-Feb-3'
   time.custom_format('#MM#/#DD#/#YY#')
     =>  '02/03/04'

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