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AJJ
AJJ

Reputation: 3628

Datetime in ruby

How to i convert "04/16/2012 03:44:26" string to datetime object in ruby?

I knew that "20120416" can be converted to datetime object by DateTime.parse(srting).

Please some one help me in converting "04/16/2012 03:44:26" to datetime object in ruby. And i need to add x minute to the above datetime object.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4733

Answers (2)

Lukas Stejskal
Lukas Stejskal

Reputation: 2562

(Time.parse("04/16/2012 03:44:26") + 10.minutes).to_datetime

UPDATE

Works even in Ruby 1.8.7, but you need to require ActiveSupport (used automatically in Rails).

Upvotes: 3

knsmr
knsmr

Reputation: 281

You need to specify the format using DateTime#strptime:

DateTime.strptime("04/16/2012 03:44:26", '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')

See: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/date/rdoc/DateTime.html#method-c-strptime

You can add x minutes like so: + (x / (24 * 60.0)).

If you are using Rails or have no problems using ActiveSupport, you can just do:

require 'active_support'
new_datetime = datetime + 10.minutes

Upvotes: 3

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