Ok, feel a little stupid, if I put the date in the form yyyy-mm-dd and then parse it I get the right result. Anyhow, this works as a resolution for me but is still I think an important question if in the case I was receiving dates in something like 'mm/dd/yyyy' how I can get it to parse right.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, David Kahn <[email protected]>wrote: > I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am wondering > if there is some intelligence in Ruby that knows that at the moment I am in > Mexico, as the parsing is working as if I was > > "6/15/2008".to_date > => ArgumentError: invalid date > > "15/6/2008".to_date > => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 > > What I really want is my date to be understood as month/day/year. Is there > a way to tell Ruby or Rails to do this? Been poking around on google and do > not see an answer that works here. > > I found a page with this example, which makes me think maybe there is > something weird going on due to my geographic location: > > '06/15/2008'.to_date > <http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/Conversions/to_date> > # => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 > > > > -- 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.
