Parse only seem to understand US date format

Rails
1

I’ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret the date
as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy?

2

Try my plugin:

http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time

-Jonathan.

3

Jonathan V. wrote:

Try my plugin:

http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time

-Jonathan.

Thanks, I’ll give it a go. Just have to figure out how to use plug-ins
(newbie here)

4

Have a look at the Rails wiki and the readme

http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time/README

-Jonathan.

5

Mark Horgan wrote:

I’ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret the date
as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy?

You can easily override ParseDate to handle other formats, I did that
for euro format dd.mm.yyyy.

require (‘parsedate’)
module ParseDate
class << self
alias_method :old_parsedate, :parsedate unless
method_defined?(:old_parsedate)
end

def self.parsedate(str)
match = /(\d{1,2}).(\d{1,2}).(\d{2,4}).?/.match(str)
return ParseDate.old_parsedate(str) unless match
[match[3].to_i, match[2].to_i, match[1].to_i, nil, nil, nil, nil,
nil]
end
end

hope this helps you.
Bojan M.

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