Formatting Dates in Rails 3.0

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Published on 2010-06-07T16:59:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 17:02 UTC
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I'm trying to format a date in Rails 3 using the new syntax as described in the code:

http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb

by using the following syntax in an initialiser:

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:my_format] = '%m %d %Y'

I am then referencing dates in my view like so:

comment.created_at.to_formatted_s(:my_format)

However, I'm just getting the default formatting - what could be wrong?

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