Parse date for given locale

Rails
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Hi, I’ve search this term on google and didn’t get the result that im
looking for.

given a date and a locale, some times the date in ‘%d/%m’%Y’ but
sometimes
it ‘%m/%d/%Y’ according to the locale.

how to parse this date ?

Ahmy Y.

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On 20 April 2012 03:51, Ahmy Y. [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I’ve search this term on google and didn’t get the result that im
looking for.

given a date and a locale, some times the date in ‘%d/%m’%Y’ but sometimes
it ‘%m/%d/%Y’ according to the locale.

I think the best solution is not to allow free format of date but to
provide separate fields for each part. datetime_select can do this
for you automatically.

If you really need to do it however, then provided you know what the
format is then use strptime to parse it.

Colin

3

Thanks for your reply colin

but the thing is, i dont control the format. Im trying to parse brithday
given by facebook. it give both of information the locale like ‘en_US’
and
then the birthday like ‘10/21/1980’ and it’s differ according the
facebook
user’s setting.

if this is not built in in ruby/rails, is there any gem for this ?

Ahmy Y.