CiriusMex wrote:
> Ok, so the year will just be stored as information (I mean you'll just
> use it to display the information on a page) no?
> If it's like that you store it as a varchar or integer I think. But if
> you will need to process the year in other functions well it should be
> better to store it as a year.
> When creating a new line on your database you can use the Date.today
> function to get the current date, after the function strftime will
> help you to display only the year:
> @year = <your_object>.year.strftime("%Y")
>
> displaying @year in your html.erb page you'll only see the year from
> the date, just as you want to.
>
> On 20 feb, 17:32, Scott Holland <[email protected]>
Thank you for the reply.
I am going to use the year to calculate other things.
So will it be ok to leave the the day and the month as '0' in the 'date'
format?
2008-00-00
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