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

Ruby Example: Write a program to get the current date only (no time) using strftime() method.
Submitted by Nidhi, on February 08, 2022

Problem Solution:

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

Program/Source Code:

The source code to get the current date only using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current date only 
# using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
OnlyDate = time.strftime("%x");

print "Date is: ",OnlyDate;

Output:

Date is: 02/08/22

Explanation:

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

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