Rails - get date from date & time stamp

Question

In my Rails database, I have a timestamp that looks like this 2010-12-22 18:21:46 UTC. I need a way to just get the date 2010-12-22 from it without re-doing the database.

Answer 1

Try time.to_date to extract date component from your timestamp.

Answer 2

To get the String you're looking for

your_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

Not sure what you mean about modifying the database?