Style-DateTime.md

Pattern: Use of DateTime

Issue: -

Description

This rule checks for uses of DateTime that should be replaced by Date or Time.

Examples

# bad - uses `DateTime` for current time
DateTime.now

# good - uses `Time` for current time
Time.now

# bad - uses `DateTime` for modern date
DateTime.iso8601('2016-06-29')

# good - uses `Date` for modern date
Date.iso8601('2016-06-29')

# good - uses `DateTime` with start argument for historical date
DateTime.iso8601('1751-04-23', Date::ENGLAND)

Further Reading

• RuboCop - Style/DateTime
• https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide#date--time