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Pratik Khadloya
Pratik Khadloya

Reputation: 12889

Ruby Date Time versus PHP Date Time

I have the following code in PHP, I am trying to write the same in Ruby.

$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone("UTC"));  
$created = $date->format("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z"); //YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.000Z;

Where T stands for Timezone Abbreviation and Z stands for Timezone Offset in PHP (Ref: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php).
The sample date generated by this is 2012-09-20T15:46:22.571Z

The ruby code that I have come up with is Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y-%m-%d%Z%H:%M:%S") but it gives the output 2012-09-20UTC00:24:57 which is close to what I am trying to get to but not exactly the same. Can anyone point me to the right direction in order to get the part with .xxxZ in the end?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 574

Answers (1)

waldyr.ar
waldyr.ar

Reputation: 15244

Take a better look at Time#strftime Various ISO 8601 formats section and probably you will come up with:

Time.now.strftime("%F%Z%T.%LZ")
  1. %F For The ISO 8601 date format (%Y-%m-%d)
  2. %Z For Time zone abbreviation name
  3. %T.%L For Local time with decimal fraction, full stop as decimal sign (extended)
  4. Z For the final "Z" in time string.

Upvotes: 1

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