# Parsing dates in Radius

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-dates-in-radius/92693>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-dates-in-radius/92693 "2007-04-23T03:34:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ned\_Zimmerman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Ned\_Zimmerman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ned_Zimmerman)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-dates-in-radius/92693/1 "2007-04-23T03:34:13Z")

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This may be more of a Radius question, but here goes.

I am setting up a Radiant-powered site that includes event listings  
for a film society. I’ve put together the pages for each film with  
different parts for the rating, director, length, language, etc. My  
problem so far has been dates and times.

Ideally I would have a part called “timestamp” or something and then I  
could enter 20070401T1600 for a particular screening—and then use a  
custom tag to parse out the different parts of the date and display  
them as “April 1, 2007” while generating a link to a calendar page at  
the url /calendar/20070401/. This will clearly take some messing  
around in Radius to create a parsing method that will do this. Any  
advice? I’m a bit of a newbie.

Cheers,  
Ned Z.