From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T22:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Really quick question - How do I convert a string to a date

Hi,

Glenn Smith <glenn.ruby@gmail.com> writes:

> I need a 'Date' object which is converted from a string value
> containing something like '13/04/2005' (english format date).

% ruby -rdate -e 'puts Date.strptime("13/04/2005", "%d/%m/%Y")'   
2005-04-13

-- 
eban