dogweather
Today's date in ISO 8601 format — the simplest way?
E.g., “2016-07-05”. Just the date, in a timezone of my choosing. (This is a really common requirement for working with API’s.) Here’s what I’ve come up with, in Phoenix, pulling in Timex to help.
today = DateTime.today
timezone = Timex.timezone("America/Los_Angeles", today)
{:ok, today_iso_8601} = today
|> Timezone.convert(timezone)
|> Timex.format("%Y-%m-%d", :strftime)Most Liked
jimm
The new Calendar types can do this:
iex(6)> DateTime.to_iso8601(dt)
"2016-07-05T17:00:55.135053Z"
iex(7)> dt |> DateTime.to_iso8601
"2016-07-05T17:00:55.135053Z"
iex(8)> dt |> DateTime.to_date |> Date.to_iso8601
"2016-07-05"
dogweather
Thanks! Is Timex’s timezone support still the best way to do timezone conversion?
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