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Ruby program to get the current minute of the hour using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current minute of the hour out of 60 using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

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

# Ruby program to get the current minute of hour 
# using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
CurrentMinuteOfHour = time.strftime("%M");

print "Current minute of hour is: ",CurrentMinuteOfHour;

Output

Current minute of hour is: 01

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. Then we got the current minute of the hour out of 60 using the strftime() method with "%M" as an argument and printed the result.

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