Date parse - month and day reversed

Rails
1

I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am
wondering if
there is some intelligence in Ruby that knows that at the moment I am in
Mexico, as the parsing is working as if I was

“6/15/2008”.to_date
=> ArgumentError: invalid date

“15/6/2008”.to_date
=> Sun, 15 Jun 2008

What I really want is my date to be understood as month/day/year. Is
there a
way to tell Ruby or Rails to do this? Been poking around on google and
do
not see an answer that works here.

I found a page with this example, which makes me think maybe there is
something weird going on due to my geographic location:

‘06/15/2008’.to_date
http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/Conversions/to_date
# => Sun, 15 Jun 2008

2

Ok, feel a little stupid, if I put the date in the form yyyy-mm-dd and
then
parse it I get the right result. Anyhow, this works as a resolution for
me
but is still I think an important question if in the case I was
receiving
dates in something like ‘mm/dd/yyyy’ how I can get it to parse right.

3

On 4 Feb 2011, at 17:36, David K. [email protected] wrote:

Ok, feel a little stupid, if I put the date in the form yyyy-mm-dd and then
parse it I get the right result. Anyhow, this works as a resolution for me but is
still I think an important question if in the case I was receiving dates in
something like ‘mm/dd/yyyy’ how I can get it to parse right.

You should probably use something like strptime rather than rely on ruby
guessing the format (which could be product of locale settings,
heuristics like ‘if the first number is 15 then it can’t be the month’
and who knows what else

Fred

4

Might wanna look at :

Robert Pankowecki

5

Hi,

Take a look at strftime, you can convert to any time format by doing
string.to_date.strftime(desired format)

for example lets say that you have “2011/12/31” and you want to conver
it to
“12-31-11” you would do
“2011/12/31”.to_date…strftime(“%d-%m-%Y”)

Jaz

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Teddyted [email protected] wrote:

Ok, feel a little stupid, if I put the date in the form yyyy-mm-dd and

I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am
there a way to tell Ruby or Rails to do this? Been poking around on google
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6

you might want to create a file: config/initializers/date_formats.rb
and add the following line to that file…
Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = “%m/%d/%Y”

to set a default date format

On Feb 4, 1:01pm, Frederick C. [email protected]