Rails plugin that tries to simplify adding custom date and time formats

script/plugin install git://github.com/cingel/custom_date_time_formats.git

First add your custom formats like this (ApplicationController could be a good place for this)

CustomDateTimeFormats.add_time_formats :hr => "%d.%m.%Y. %H:%M:%S", :human => "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"
CustomDateTimeFormats.add_date_formats :hr => "%d.%m.%Y.", :human => "%m/%d/%Y"

and use it like this

Time.now.to_s(:hr) => "24.05.2010. 15:32:01"
Date.today.to_s(:human) => "05/24/2010"

or

user = User.first
user.created_at.to_s => "2010-05-20 22:00:08 UTC"
user.created_at.to_s(:hr) => "20.05.2010. 22:00:08"
user.created_at.to_date.to_s(:human) => "05/20/2010"

• See lib/custom_date_time_formats.rb for the list of predefined formats

• If you add date format it will be automatically added as time format unless time format with that name already exists

api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/Conversions.html api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Date/Conversions.html

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