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Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

Wilson Bilkovich — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:57:01 -0000

There is a gem that provides some support for this.
gem listing: http://rubygems.org/gems/is...
source: https://github.com/arnau/IS...

Here's a small session using it:
>> require 'iso8601'
>> include ISO8601
>> Duration.new(659).to_s
=> "PT659S"
>> (Duration.new(659) - Duration.new(323)).to_s
=> "PT5M36S"

Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

bf — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:09:18 -0000

The ruby 'time' library only handles the xmlschema time discussed. I'm unaware of implementations of the full iso8601 spec. Perhaps one of the microformats tools uses it. see http://microformats.org/wik...

Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

Kris L — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:16:25 -0000

Great post regarding iso8601. I was trying to load a Time object from a YAML config file and everything else I did just returned a string representation of the date. By using the iso8601 format, YAML correctly parses it back to a Time object. :)

Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

Тотото Сё — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:51:31 -0000

What is about time periods ? How can I get format like this PT1H30M ?

Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

Avdi Grimm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:57:44 -0000

Thanks, I've updated the post!

Re: ISO8601 Dates in Ruby

Wilson Bilkovich — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:38:07 -0000

require 'rss' works because it is requiring 'time'.
If you just want the iso8601 support, you can go with: require 'time'

Also, Time#iso8601 takes a handy optional argument for the number of fractional digits at the end.
I've had to use this to interact with brittle external services, for example.