# Very strange date problem for the month may

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/very-strange-date-problem-for-the-month-may/109724>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/very-strange-date-problem-for-the-month-may/109724 "2007-07-18T11:41:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remcoh)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/very-strange-date-problem-for-the-month-may/109724/1 "2007-07-18T11:41:10Z")

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Hi,  
I use the calendar\_date\_select plugin  
([Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/))  
which is working fine, but the strange thing is:  
if i debug my application, i can see that the date is received by the  
controller in the format ‘july 10, 2007’

somewhere this gets translated (not by my application) in a format which  
mysql understands, because i can save this record correct and in the log  
i can see the submit query is submitted with the date field “2007-07-10”

however, if i select a day in may, this is not working anymore.  
in the log i see the date: ‘may 10, 2007’ as the string which gets  
submitted, but it doesn’t pass field validation, and if i remove field  
validatio for this field, i get:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!  
The error occurred while evaluating nil.strftime

is this a bug somewhere?

regards, remco