title: Change format of created_at in Rails 3.1?
body: <p>I am calling the date a record was created at in a basic app running Rails 3.1.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%= @issue.created_at %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above outputs the following timestamp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2011-09-10 14:44:24 UTC
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the simplest way of altering the way this displays? I would like something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>10 Sept. 2011
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then somehow call it again with a different format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>14:44
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so I can call it twice and merge the two together:</p>
  
  <pre><code>10 Sept. 2011
  14:44
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The reason I want to call it twice rather than create a helper to format a two line date/time is to allow me to call the date in some places and just the time in others.</p>