method

to_s

v1_9_1_378 - Show latest stable - Class: Time

to_s()

public

Returns a string representing time. Equivalent to calling Time#strftime with a format string of “%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z” for a local time and “%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC” for a UTC time.

Time.now.to_s       #=> "2007-10-05 16:09:51 +0900"
Time.now.utc.to_s   #=> "2007-10-05 07:09:51 UTC"

static VALUE
time_to_s(VALUE time)
{
    struct time_object *tobj;
    char buf[128];
    int len;

    GetTimeval(time, tobj);
    if (tobj->tm_got == 0) {
        time_get_tm(time, tobj->gmt);
    }
    if (tobj->gmt == 1) {
        len = rb_strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC",
                          &tobj->tm, &tobj->ts, tobj->gmt);
    }
    else {
        len = rb_strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z",
                          &tobj->tm, &tobj->ts, tobj->gmt);
    }
    return rb_str_new(buf, len);
}

to_s

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