format a date in to the format october 13, 2014 11:13 am in ruby

To format a date into the given format in Ruby, you can use the strftime (string-formatted time) method.

The strftime method takes a formatting string as an argument and returns a string representation of the date and time based on the format specifiers used in the formatting string.

Here's an example code snippet that formats a Time object into the desired format:

main.rb
time = Time.new(2014, 10, 13, 11, 13)
formatted_time = time.strftime("%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p")
puts formatted_time
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In this example, we create a new Time object representing October 13, 2014 at 11:13 AM. We then use the strftime method with the formatting string "%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p", which specifies that we want the month name (%B), day of the month (%d), year (%Y), hour (%I), minute (%M), and AM/PM indicator (%p) to be included in the output string.

The resulting output of the example code would be:

main.rb
October 13, 2014 11:13 AM
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