How do I convert this "2013-10-20 18:36:40" into a Ruby datetime?
I'm trying the following, but it's not working:
"2013-10-20 18:36:40".to_datetime
That's making it this and missing the time:
2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC
3 Answers
Use DateTime::strptime:
require 'date'
DateTime.strptime("2013-10-20 18:36:40", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
#<DateTime: 2013-10-20T18:36:40+00:00 ((2456586j,67000s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
Comments
You can do the following if rails is installed on your system:--
require 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions'
"2013-10-20 18:36:40".to_time
1.9.2p320 :001 > require 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions'
=> true
1.9.2p320 :003 > "2013-10-20 18:36:40".to_time
=> 2013-10-20 18:36:40 UTC
1 Comment
Kundan Pandit
active_support is available in rails, not in ruby.
There is also DateTime#parse method:
2.1.0 :001 > require 'date'
=> true
2.1.0 :002 > DateTime.parse('2013-10-20 18:36:40')
=> #<DateTime: 2013-10-20T18:36:40+00:00 ((2456586j,67000s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
If your work with rails consider writing timezone-safe code:
Time.zone.parse("2013-10-20 18:36:40")
http://www.elabs.se/blog/36-working-with-time-zones-in-ruby-on-rails
require 'active_support/all'(or justrequire 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions') if you don't want to load it all.