==== ISO8601 ==== ISO8601 is a way to represent time. This format may be used in JSON strings and hence in tincan to store time. To implment it we need to install this gem http://rubygems.org/gems/iso8601 === Sample Program === require 'rubygems' require 'iso8601' time = ISO8601::DateTime.new('2016-12-24T15:23') puts time puts time.to_time # prints output in ruby