Ruby | DateTime to_datetime() function

DateTime#to_datetime() : to_datetime() is a DateTime class method which returns the self DateTime object.

Syntax: DateTime.to_datetime()

Parameter: DateTime values

Return: the self DateTime object.

Example #1 :

# Ruby code for DateTime.to_datetime() method

# loading library
require 'date'

# declaring DateTime value
date_a = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9)

# declaring DateTime value
date_b = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10.5)

# declaring DateTime value
date_c = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9, Rational(4, 24))


#  to_datetime method
puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_a.to_datetime}\n\n"

puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_b.to_datetime}\n\n"

puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_c.to_datetime}\n\n"

Output :

DateTime to_datetime form : 2019-08-10T04:10:09+00:00

DateTime to_datetime form : 2019-08-10T12:00:00+00:00

DateTime to_datetime form : 2019-08-10T04:10:09+04:00

Example #2 :

# Ruby code for DateTime.to_datetime() method

# loading library
require 'date'

# declaring DateTime value
date_a = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 5)

# declaring DateTime value
date_b = DateTime.parse('10 Aug 2018 04:10:06+04:30')

# declaring DateTime value
date_c = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9, '+03:00')


#  to_datetime method
puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_a.to_datetime}\n\n"

puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_b.to_datetime}\n\n"

puts "DateTime to_datetime form : #{date_c.to_datetime}\n\n"

Output :

DateTime to_datetime form : 2019-08-10T05:00:00+00:00

DateTime to_datetime form : 2018-08-10T04:10:06+04:30

DateTime to_datetime form : 2019-08-10T04:10:09+03:00