[LRUG] extending Time for use throughout rails

[Andrew Stewart]

On 28 Dec 2007, at 18:41, Dafydd Rees wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to add the concept of "geek format" (e.g. 2007-12-31) to the
> standard time class. This is how I do it:
>
> class Time
>    def geektime
>      strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
>    end
> end
>
> In what file (and where) should I put this code in my rails app so
> it's accessible in all of my rails code?
>
> The responsibilities should settle down soon and I can palm this work
> off to an object in one part of the system but until that happens I'd
> like to stash in in the Time class.

You're not the first -- this is ISO 8601 :)

This might help:

http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/04/13/iso-8601-dates-in-ruby-on-rails

Or you could build on this:

$ irb
 >> require 'time'
=> true
 >> Time.now.iso8601
=> "2007-12-28T20:04:24+00:00"

Regards,
Andy Stewart

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