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instance method

DateTime#to_s

dt.to_s → string

static VALUE
dt_lite_to_s(VALUE self)
{
    return strftimev("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z", self, set_tmx);
}

Returns a string in an ISO 8601 format. (This method doesn’t use the expanded representations.)

Example

DateTime.new(2001,2,3,4,5,6,'-7').to_s
                         #=> "2001-02-03T04:05:06-07:00"

See also #to_json #to_time #to_datetime #xmlschema also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1