try this: http://l1xl1x.blogspot.com/2009/10/custom-date-and-time-format-in-rails.html
Regards, Istvan On Oct 22, 6:47 pm, RubyonRails_newbie <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to implement this? > > On 22 Oct, 18:27, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 22, 6:01 pm, RubyonRails_newbie <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > However. When this is saved to the database it looks like: 1988-10-01. > > > Likewise on the site a user will eventually see. If they originally > > > enter it as: 01/10/1988, why does it display backwards? > > > > And, is there a solution to this to allow it to be stored as dd/mm/ > > > yyyy? > > > How the database stores the date isn't really any of your business - > > chances are that it's not stored as a string at all. What you're > > seeing is probably just the Date classes default to_s method (which > > again bears little relationship to how instances of Date store their > > value) When you get a date out of the database it's up to you to > > format it the way you want it before display (eg use strftime)/ > > > Fred > > > > Many thanks in advance! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
