time.strftime( string ) => string

%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'' orPM’’)

%S - Second of the minute (00..60)

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

%W - Week number of the current year,starting with the first Monday as the firstday 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

*t = Time.now  

*t.strftime(

“Printed on %m/%d/%Y”) #=> ”Printed on 04/09/2003”  

*t.strftime(

“at %I:%M%p”) #=> ”at 08:56AM”