Timestamp -> formatted date & time

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Hello,

I get a DATETIME field from a MySQL DB and am looking for an easy way to
format it. In PHP I would have used date(formatstring, time), what is
the best way to do it in Ruby?

Andreas

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don’t know if DATETIME is numeric or text (i use postgresql) but convert to a
Time object, perhaps using ParseDate, then use Time#strftime. it’s just like
the C funtion.

it may be easiest to ask mysql to do the formatting for you.

-a

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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Andreas Schwarz wrote:

Hello,

I get a DATETIME field from a MySQL DB and am looking for an easy way to
format it. In PHP I would have used date(formatstring, time), what is
the best way to do it in Ruby?

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