change default date format in ruby on rails?

Question

I want to change default date format in Rails. Format should be y/m/d . I add following code into my environment.rb

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.
merge!(:default => '%Y/%m/%d')

But it didn't work. How can I change default format? I use rails 2.3.8 version

Here is answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3694352/rails-3-default-datetime-format-without-utc. Look at jankubr post — Sergey Kishenin, Aug 22 '11 at 09:14

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:47

19

Add a file to config/initializers with the following code:

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default]="%Y/%m/%d"
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:default]="%Y/%m/%d %H:%M"

answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:47

dexter

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Note, several posts elsewhere suggest that messing with these settings affects what is stored in the database; while it may have been true in earlier versions of Rails, as of 3.2, it seems OK. – Tom Harrison Mar 13 '12 at 18:18
Note: this can also be done in a before_filter in a controller if you let your users select their own date and time formats. – UrLicht Mar 15 '12 at 22:41
Note that since Ruby 1.9, the ruby dateformat is `%d/%m/%Y` and needs to be changed for these to fully work – toobulkeh Apr 14 '15 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:21

0

Put that in a file in the config/initializers and that should work.

answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:21

Rishav Rastogi

1

still not working... i add a file in config/initializers and put that code. – Rosh Aug 22 '11 at 09:53

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