How to retrieve time without the offset number at the end?

Question

Time.now will produce something like:

2013-07-24 22:23:08 -0700

I want:

2013-07-24 22:23:08

for subsequent entry into a DB. Gotta be something simple, but I didn't find it in Time docs. Writing Time.now.to_s[0..19] sounds like bad programming.

Answer 1

You can get this by

Time.now.to_formatted_s(:db)

You can find different formats for to_formatted_s from here

or

Time.now.strftime("%F %T")

Hope this could help you