From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-08-08T13:37:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5263 ] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs


In message "Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5263 ] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs"
    on Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:51:27 +0900, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> writes:

|I bet that Ruby's strptime doesn't handle negative year numbers.

It does.

% ruby -r date -e 'p Date.strptime("-2000-08-09", "%Y-%m-%d").to_s'
"-2000-08-09"

							matz.