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I've installed ruby-1.8.6-p383 with RVM. System ruby is 1.9.1_p378-1
I'm getting the wrong date from Date.today and DateTime.now when using ruby 1.8.. Whereas Time.now is correct:
irb(main):002:0> DateTime.now.to_s
=> "2126--1-10618T11:23:43+00:00"
irb(main):004:0> Date.today.to_s
=> "2126--1-10618"
irb(main):005:0> Time.now
=> Thu Jan 28 11:55:27 +0000 2010
All is well if I switch to ruby 1.9:
irb(main):003:0> DateTime.now.to_s
=> "2010-01-28T11:58:51+00:00"
irb(main):004:0> Date.today.to_s
=> "2010-01-28"
irb(main):005:0> Time.now
=> 2010-01-28 11:59:05 +0000
Any advice on how to get DateTime to work properly in ruby 1.8 would be most appreciated!
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DateTime#now() : now() is a DateTime class method which returns a DateTime object denoting the given calendar date. Return: DateTime object denoting the given calendar date.
Two steps: You need to convert your string into Date object. For that, use Date#strptime . You can use Date#strftime to convert the Date object into preferred format.
I stumbled upon similar problem and got 3 different solutions, which i tried 2 of and both worked. Read more about it from here:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/210647
Jarmo
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