I want to convert 2 dates
"05/14/2020" to 05-14-2020 00:00:00. (start of the day)
"05/31/2020" to 05-31-2020 23:59:59. (end of the day)
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I would do this:
Date.strptime("05/14/2020", "%m/%d/%Y").beginning_of_day
#=> Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC +00:00
Date.strptime("05/31/2020", "%m/%d/%Y").end_of_day
#=> Sun, 31 May 2020 23:59:59 UTC +00:00
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Honnappa
I am getting error for both. NoMethodError (undefined method `beginning_of_day' for #<Date: 2020-05-14 ((2458984j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>)
Heir Of Knowledge
Use
DateTime.strptime instead of Date
Stefan
@Mahant
Date#beginning_of_day is a Rails method (your question has the ruby-on-rails tag)Honnappa
@Stefan I did not see any rails tag individually
Stefan
@Mahant tags categorize questions. Your question has two tags:
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You can use Time.strptime to parse a string that's composed of your date string and a fixed time value:
require 'time'
from = '05/14/2020'
to = '05/31/2020'
Time.strptime("#{from} 00:00:00", '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')
#=> 2020-05-14 00:00:00 +0200
Time.strptime("#{to} 23:59:59", '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')
#=> 2020-05-31 23:59:59 +0200
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Rajagopalan
HI Stefan, Your
slice_before suggestion to my question perfectly worked for me. Since my question got downvoted, I deleted it. Thanks your solution resolved my problem. I will delete this comment once after you have seen it.Stefan
@Rajagopalan you're welcome. But don't delete questions just because you got a downvote. People spent time reading it and providing help (via comments and answers). Deleting the question invalidates their efforts.