From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T08:17:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.parse bug?


In message "Re: Time.parse bug?"
    on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 02:39:33 +0900, tony summerfelt <snowzone5@hotmail.com> writes:

|a timestamp  line logged yesterday:
|
|02/03/05 22:30:49
|
|that's march 2nd, 2005 est
|
|but this:
|
|require 'time'
|t=Time.parse("02/03/05 22:30:49")
|puts t
|
|outputs this:
|
|Thu Feb 03 22:30:49 EST 2005
|
|
|is there any way to parse the line with a specific format (in this
|case switching the day and month around.

You need to specify the time format explicitly to parse.  This small
chunk of code would help.

---
require 'date/format'

def Time.strptime(date, fmt)
  Time.mktime(*Date._strptime(date, fmt).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday, :hour, :min, :sec, :zone, :wday))
end
---

 log = "02/03/05 22:30:49"
 p Time.strptime(log, "%d/%m/%y %X")

Time.strptime will be available by default in the future.

							matz.