Ruby on Rails : Split Date Time

Formats time according to the directives in the given format string. Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output string.

t = Time.now
t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")
t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")#=> "Printed on 04/09/2003"
#=> "at 08:56AM"

%a

- The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')

%A

- The full weekday name (``Sunday'')

%b

- The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')

%B

- The full month name (``January'')

%c

- The preferred local date and time representation

%d

- Day of the month (01..31)

%H

- Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)

%I

- Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)

%j

- Day of the year (001..366)

%m

- Month of the year (01..12)

%M

- Minute of the hour (00..59)

%p

- Meridian indicator (``AM'' or ``PM'')

%S

- Second of the minute (00..60)

%U

- Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53)

%W

- Week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week (00..53)

%w

- Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)

%x

- Preferred representation for the date alone, no time

%X

- Preferred representation for the time alone, no date

%y

- Year without a century (00..99)

%Y

- Year with century

%Z

- Time zone name

%%

- Literal ``%'' character

Taken From : http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000255