The question is "how to get a DateTime object from an Italian date
string"?

On Jan 4, 11:45 am, Jeroen van Ingen <[email protected]> wrote:
> For example I have this translation 
> file:https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/master/rails/locale/it.yml
> And I've set:
> I18n.locale = :it
>
> This works fine:
> I18n.localize Time.now -> "Mer 04 Gen 2012, 11:26:17 +0100"
> "02 Novembre 2012".to_datetime => Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000
>
> But this gives an invalid date:
> "02 Gennaio 2012".to_datetime
>
> Date::MONTHNAMES returns:
> [nil, "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
> "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
>
> The fastest way to solve this problem is to add the months to the YAML
> file and translate them into English months. Like this:
> Gennaio: January
> etc....
> Then I do:
> "02 #{I18n.t(Gennaio)} 2012".to_datetime => Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00
> +0000
>
> But I was wondering if there is a more cleaner way so I can get it to
> work like this:
> "02 Gennaio 2012".to_datetime
>
> --
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