From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T23:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby SVG::Graph module problem.

On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:16 AM, <Simon.Mullis@equinoxsolutions.com> wrote:
> Could this be a localisation issue? (I'm in the UK).

Yes, I believe so. I see you have:

> data1 = ["17/6/72", 11, "11/1/72", 7, "13/4/04 17:31", 11, "11/9/01", 
> 9,
> "11/9/85", 2, "1/9/88", 1, "15/1/95", 13]

and then I see errors during the parsing. It appears that you have your 
dates in dd/mm/yy format; Parsedate.parsedate requires 'mm/dd/yy' when 
only that information is supplied.

See the table on page 733 of Pickaxe 2, or 
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/lib_standard.html#ParseDate