Ruby Time Now Seconds

Ruby date and time.

Ruby time now seconds.

How to truncate a ruby time down to the second minute hour or day may 18 2010 brian morearty 4 comments sometimes you have a time or datetime object in ruby and you want to zero out the milliseconds seconds minutes or hours. Now that you know how to create objects and classes in ruby we can move on to date and time formatting. Something that adapts to your use case. Time now utc ruby time formatting.

Time is stored internally as the number of seconds with fraction since the epoch january 1 1970 00 00 utc also see the library module date. Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default. But you may want something else. You can use a method to get almost any format you need.

Time1 inspect time now is a synonym. 07 01 2020 time to i is a time class method which returns the value of time as an integer number of seconds since the epoch. Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time. Time is an abstraction of dates and times.

Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time. Ruby time to i function last updated. The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems. Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time.

Time2 time now puts current time. The syntax to create an object in ruby is.