Parse date for given locale

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.

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

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.