Set time part of DateTime in ruby
Within a Rails environment:
Thanks to ActiveSupport you can use:
DateTime.now.midnight
DateTime.now.beginning_of_day
OR
DateTime.now.change({ hour: 0, min: 0, sec: 0 })
# More concisely
DateTime.now.change({ hour: 0 })
Within a purely Ruby environment:
now = DateTime.now
DateTime.new(now.year, now.month, now.day, 0, 0, 0, now.zone)
OR
now = DateTime.now
DateTime.parse(now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT00:00:00%z"))
Nevermind, got it. Need to create a new DateTime:
DateTime.new(now.year, now.month, now.day, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Warning: DateTime.now.midnight
and DateTime.now.beginning_of_day
return the same value (which is the zero hour of the current day - midnight does not return 24:00:00 as you would expect from its name).
So I am adding this as further info for anyone who might use the accepted answer to calculate midnight x days in the future.
For example, a 14 day free trial that should expire at midnight on the 14th day:
DateTime.now.midnight + 14.days
is the morning of the 14th day, which equates to a 13.x day trial (x is the part of the day left over - if now is noon, then it's 13.5 day trial).
You would actually need to do this:
DateTime.now.midnight + 15.days
to get midnight on the 14th day.
For this reason I always prefer to use beginning_of_day
, since that is 00:00:00. Using midnight can be misleading/misunderstood.