The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems.
Ruby time now in milliseconds.
Time2 time now puts current time.
Readable strftime a the abbreviated weekday name sun a the full weekday name sunday b the abbreviated month name jan b the full month name january c the preferred local date and time representation d day of the month 01 31 h hour of the day 24 hour clock 00 23 i hour of the day 12 hour clock 01 12.
1970 01 01t00 00 00z literally speaking the epoch is unix time 0 midnight 1 1 1970 but epoch is often used as a synonym for unix time.
T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc.
England tue 23 apr 1616 00 00 00 0000 cervantes datetime.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 getting components of a date time.
Time is an abstraction of dates and times.
If you need anything else a scalar value e g.
You can use a method to get almost any format you need.
Seconds since the unix epoch 100 ns intervals since 1601 or maybe a string for display purposes or storing the timestamp in a database you can readily get that from the object.
Shakespeare datetime.
Mon jun 02 12 02 39 0700 2008 current time.
But that gets you this.
This site provides the current time in milliseconds elapsed since the unix epoch jan 1 1970 as well as in other common formats including local utc time comparisons.
Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.
2 1 0 001 require time true 2 1 0 002 time now utc iso8601 2015 11 12t04 46 43z the round method will get you finer resolution.
So you want to generate iso8601 formatted timestamps in ruby but need resolution finer than a second.
Some systems store epoch dates as a signed 32.
In my eyes a timestamp is exactly that.
You can also convert milliseconds to date time and the other way around.
What is epoch time.
Iso8601 1616 04 23.
Time1 inspect time now is a synonym.
This can be accurately represented with an object.
First make sure to require time in order to get iso8601 formatting.
Usr bin ruby w time1 time new puts current time.
Something that adapts to your use case.
Time time now getutc rationale.
This is where datetime steps in.
Time2 inspect this will produce the following result current time.
A point in time.
Time now utc ruby time formatting.
Iso8601 1616 04 23 date.
Since ruby s time class implements a proleptic gregorian calendar and has no concept of calendar reform there s no way to express this with time objects.
