[ruby-core:78663] [Ruby trunk Bug#13036] Date.parse mishandling spanish months "Abril y Agosto"

Issue #13036 has been updated by Victor Shepelev.


AFAIK, Date.parse was NEVER intending to parse anything except English/American dates in English/American formats. Parsing dates internationally is waaaay harder than making dictionaries of month names: different cultures have different (often incompatible) date formats. Take a look at this list, for ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

International date parser is a cool idea for standalone gem, but I don't think it could be ever expected to be in stdlib.

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Bug #13036: Date.parse mishandling spanish months "Abril y Agosto"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13036#change-62043

* Author: Gonzalo Reutter
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.3.0
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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### Steps to reproduce
$ irb

2.3.0 :003 > Date.parse("01-Agosto-2016")
 => 01 Dec 2016  
2.3.0 :004 > Date.parse("01-Abril-2016")
 => 01 Dec 2016 

### Expected behavior
2.3.0 :003 > Date.parse("01-Agosto-2016")
 => 01 Aug 2016  
2.3.0 :004 > Date.parse("01-Abril-2016")
 => 01 Apr 2016 

### Actual behavior
"Agosto" is parsed to December
"Abril" is parsed to December.

### System configuration
Ruby 2.3.0

Would much like to fix this myself, should be straight forward, but I'm a hobby developer and have never contributed to a project.




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