Ruby String to Date Conversion

Ruby - convert string to date

For Ruby 1.9.2:

require 'date'    # If not already required. If in Rails then you don't need this line).
puts DateTime.parse("2011-06-02T23:59:59+05:30").to_date.to_s

Ruby String to Date Conversion

What is wrong with Date.parse method?

str = "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:20:19 -0400 (EDT)"
date = Date.parse str
=> #<Date: 4910837/2,0,2299161>
puts date
2010-08-10

It seems to work.

The only problem here is time zone. If you want date in UTC time zone, then it is better to use Time object, suppose we have string:

str = "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:20:19 +0400"
puts Date.parse str
2010-08-10
puts Date.parse(Time.parse(str).utc.to_s)
2010-08-09

I couldn't find simpler method to convert Time to Date.

Ruby String to Date Conversion

What is wrong with Date.parse method?

str = "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:20:19 -0400 (EDT)"
date = Date.parse str
=> #<Date: 4910837/2,0,2299161>
puts date
2010-08-10

It seems to work.

The only problem here is time zone. If you want date in UTC time zone, then it is better to use Time object, suppose we have string:

str = "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:20:19 +0400"
puts Date.parse str
2010-08-10
puts Date.parse(Time.parse(str).utc.to_s)
2010-08-09

I couldn't find simpler method to convert Time to Date.

convert String to DateTime

DateTime.strptime allows you to specify the format and convert a String to a DateTime.

Ruby - Convert a string to Date

if you want date object

date_string = "25/04/14"
date = Date.strptime(date_string, "%d/%m/%y")

if you want 25-04-2014 format string

new_format = date.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")

Convert string to datetime ruby on rails

You can use DateTime to parse the date from a specific format.

if the format you are looking to parse is "03/28/2018 1:46 AM" then you can do this.

date = DateTime.strptime('03/28/2018 1:46 AM', '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p')

# date to ISO 8601

puts date.to_time
# output: 2018-03-28 07:16:00 +0530

puts date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
# output: 03/28/2018

Date formats:

Date (Year, Month, Day):

%Y - Year with century (can be negative, 4 digits at least)
        -0001, 0000, 1995, 2009, 14292, etc.
%m - Month of the year, zero-padded (01..12)
        %_m  blank-padded ( 1..12)
        %-m  no-padded (1..12)
%d - Day of the month, zero-padded (01..31)
        %-d  no-padded (1..31)

Time (Hour, Minute, Second, Subsecond):

%H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, zero-padded (00..23)
%k - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23)
%I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, zero-padded (01..12)
%l - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 1..12)
%P - Meridian indicator, lowercase (``am'' or ``pm'')
%p - Meridian indicator, uppercase (``AM'' or ``PM'')

%M - Minute of the hour (00..59)

You can refer to all formats here.

Converting string to date with Ruby

Remove the period from my_string and from the date pattern.

Date.strptime(my_string.sub('.', ''), '%d %b %Y')

That's assuming you have at most one dot in my_string. If there may be several, use gsub.

Date.strptime(my_string.gsub('.', ''), '%d %b %Y')

Convert string to date time in Ruby

Here you go:

DateTime.strptime("03/30/2021 4:30 PM", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M %p") # =>  Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:30:00 +0000

And here is the strptime method, https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/DateTime.html

Ruby: convert string to date

You could also use Date.strptime:

Date.strptime("{ 2009, 4, 15 }", "{ %Y, %m, %d }")

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