Using your own date and time formats

Here is an easy way to implement your own date and time formats without repeatedly convert dates with ugly converts or helper methods.

In your environment.rb file, you can define your own time formats like this:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
  :client_readable => "%A %B %d at %H:%M", # => Friday April 25 at 11:10
  :client_reports => "%d/%m/%Y at %H:%M"   # => 25/04/2008 at 11:10
)

And then you can use this formatting in your views really easy:

Last updated on <%= @post.updated_at.to_s(:client_readable) %>
# => "Last updated on Friday April 25 at 11:20"

Source: workswithruby.com/2008/4/5-rails-tips

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