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Ruby program to get the current day number of the month using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current day number of the month using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current day number of the month using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current day number 
# of the month using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
DayOfMonth = time.strftime("%d");

print "Current day number of month is: ",DayOfMonth;

Output

Current day number of month is: 04

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. We got the current day of the month using the strftime() method with "%d" as an argument and printed the result.

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