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 > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rails-i18n" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en.
