Specify date/time formats via dates and times, instead of opaque strftime codes.
Time.now.like('31 december in the year 1999')
=> "17 december in the year 2018"
Note that strftime does not handle localization. To handle localization, you should put the format string for various languages in a locale yaml file, and use something like ‘Time.now.like(t(’datetime.long’)) to convert the datetimes.
Uses a natural format to specify a date/time format, by using a reference date/time. This canonical, easy to remember timestamp is Sunday, December 31 1999, 23:59:00 UTC, or Sun 12-31-99 11:59:00 PM. Also known as the last second of the previous century. Capitalization of months/weekdays will match that in template. Encoding should be UTF-8. Capitalization of accented letters may not work. The following subset of strftime is supported:
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Year long (1999)
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Year short (99)
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Month long (december)
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Month short (dec)
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Month numeric (12)
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Yearday (366)
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Date (31)
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Weekday long (Sunday)
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Weekday short (Sun)
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Weekday very short (Su)
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Hour, 24-hour clock (23)
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Hour, 12-hour clock (11)
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AM/PM (pm)
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Minutes (59)
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Seconds (00)
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Timezone (UTC)
Unsupported (but you may use strftime % codes)
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milliseconds
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weekday (numeric)
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week number
[List of strftime codes](ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Time.html#method-i-strftime)
It’s possible to specify the format string in the following languages, although we recommend you just use English. Supported languages are: :en (english), :nl (Dutch), :fr (French), :de (German). Spanish(:es), Italian(:it) and Swedish(:se) are not yet fully supported. The default language can be set using Time.set_default_template_language. Examples for English:
require 'like_1999'
t = Time.now
=> 2018-12-17 11:09:11 +0100
t.like("Sunday DECEMBER 31, 11:59 PM")
=> "Monday DECEMBER 17, 11:09 AM"
t.like("Sun 31 dec")
=> "Mon 17 dec"
t.like("12-31-99")
=> "12-17-18"
t.like("Next sunday at 11 o'clock")
=> "Next monday at 11 o'clock"
t.like("Sun 12-31-99 11:59 PM UTC")
=> "Mon 12-17-18 11:09 AM CET"
Examples for Dutch:
Time.set_default_template_language(:nl) t = Time.now t.like("Zondag 31 DECEMBER 23:59") t.like("Zo 31 dec") t.like("31-12-99") t.like("Zondag om 23 uur 59") t.like("December, 1999")
Examples for French:
Time.set_default_template_language(:fr) t = Time.now t.like("Dimanche 31 DÉCEMBRE 23:59") t.like("Di 31 déc")
Examples for German:
Time.set_default_template_language(:de) t = Time.now t.like("Sonntag 31 DEZEMBER 23:59") t.like("So 31 dez")
gem install like_1999
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