[Stamp Gem(Stamp Gem)][1] Stamp gem is the best gem for converting format of Dates and Times in Human friendly formats. Its very easy to use in our rails application. We can use this gem as: run: gem install stamp or inlude this line in gem file gem 'stamp' then run: bundle install. Example: Suppose, I have a date = 2014-01-15 18:19:07 +0530 then we can convert this date into humans friendly date format like date.stamp('1-Jan-2000') => '15-Jan-2014' date.stamp('1st Jan') => '15th Jan' date.stamp('Jan 1, 2000') => 'Jan 15, 2014' date.stamp(