From: "tadf (tadayoshi funaba)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2012-08-05T07:43:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46998] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6818][Rejected] Incorrect Date.parse results


Issue #6818 has been updated by tadf (tadayoshi funaba).

Status changed from Open to Rejected
Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)

it is not a bug.
us is minority.
i think we should just ignore the case, so far.
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Bug #6818: Incorrect Date.parse results
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6818#change-28653

Author: babak (Babak B)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Since this is a standard library and I couldn't find a dedicated page for the Date module

require 'time

> Date.parse '07/31/2012'
ArgumentError: invalid date
from (pry):3:in `parse'

In the United States, MM/DD/YYYY is perhaps the most common way to write dates. I found somewhere in prior posts suggestions to convert to Euro style which may alson include DD/MM/YYYY but that is not correct for US. There should at least be a way to choose the region, it can not always be deduced from syntax of date alone.


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