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Ruby program to get the current hour of the day in the 24-hour format using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current hour of the day in the 24-hour format using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current hour of the day in the 24-hour format using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current hour of the day 
# in 24-hour format using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
CurrentHourOfDay = time.strftime("%H");

print "Current hour of the day in 24 hour format is: ",CurrentHourOfDay;

Output

Current hour of the day in 24 hour format is: 10

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. We got the current hour of the day in the 24-hour format using the strftime() method with "%H" as an argument and printed the result.

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