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ISO 8601 Date Format For Microformats

04.15.2008

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        Strftime to get the ISO 8601 (see RFC 3339) full date format for an hEvent Microformat. Doubtless usable in other situations.

strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z');


If you're in Ruby, you can access this the quick way with:

$ irb
>> require 'time'
=> true
>> Time.now.iso8601
=> "2008-07-09T16:13:30+12:00"


Rails example:

<abbr class="dtstart" title="<%= event.start_date.iso8601"><%= event.start_date.to_s(:long) %></abbr>

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Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2008/12/01 - 3:23pm

Ruby may have a built-in method for this, but it saved me some time in an environment where I don't have direct access to Ruby (specifically, Radiant CMS tags). So thanks!