Ruby 101 : Time and Date functions - Novice to Expert in ONE Day
In this video, we go over time and date functions provided by ruby. This is very useful if you're dealing with scripts that require parsing dates and comparing them to see if you should perform some action such as a script for cleaning up files older than 30 days.
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The functions we cover include
Creation
Time.now - create an instance of time object with current time and date
Time.new - creating date using custom year, month, day etc
Time.at - create time from an epoch time
Time.gmt - create time object in gmt time zone
Time.utc - create time object in UTC time zone
Time.local - create time object in local time zone
Comparison
.monday? , .tuesday? etc - check if the day of the time object is a particular day
.dst? - check if time object represents a date with daylight savings time enabled
Other comparison operators
Extraction
.year, .month etc to get values for those items from a time object
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