Rails: Get the time from a datetime

DateTime.new(2011,10,1,9).to_s(:time) #=> "09:00"

DateTime.now.to_s(:time) #=> "11:58"

From Time docs

strftime will do it.

t = Time.now
t.strftime("%I:%M%p")

All other attributes here:

http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/2009/07/rails-date-formats-strftime/