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Ruby program to get the current time only (no date) using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current time only (no date) using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current time only (no date) using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the time only (no date) 
# using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
OnlyTime = time.strftime("%X");

print "Current time is: ",OnlyTime;

Output

Current time is: 07:47:47

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. Then we get the current time only (no date) using the strftime() method with "%X" as an argument and printed the result.

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