Blog | Rubyyot » date http://blog.rubyyot.com Programming, Pragmatism and Getting By in the World Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:14:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Date.parse() is not your friend. http://blog.rubyyot.com/2010/02/date-parse-is-not-your-friend/ http://blog.rubyyot.com/2010/02/date-parse-is-not-your-friend/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:08:30 +0000 admin http://blog.rubyyot.com/?p=711 I’ve started looking at Ruby 1.9 with multiruby, and one of the first things that I found in testing is that Date.parse assumes European dates (dd/mm/yyyy format) in v1.9. The solution is to use strptime() instead so you can specify a format.

Date.strptime("12/31/2009", "%m/%d/%Y")
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