Customizing datetime format in en.yml in Rails 3

Question

According to documentation at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#adding-date-time-formats, the best way to ask for specific formats for a date is to define them in /config/

Answer 1

just want to clarify that if you use with active record, just simply convert the string datetime value to date object as example below.

en:
  date:
    formats:
      default: "%Y-%m-%d"
      short: "%b %d"
      long: "%B %d, %Y"

<%= l(post.the_created_at.to_date, format: :long) %>