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Ruby program to get the current date-time using strftime() method
Last Updated : December 15, 2025
Problem Solution
In this program, we will get the current date-time using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.
Program/Source Code
The source code to get the current date-time using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.
# Ruby program to get the current date time
# using strftime() method
time = Time.new();
DateTime = time.strftime("%c");
print "Current Datetime is: ",DateTime;
Output
Current Datetime is: Fri Feb 4 09:53:33 2022
Explanation
In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. Then we got the current date-time using the strftime() method with "%C" as an argument and printed the result.
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