From: Patrick Fernie <patrick.fernie@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T02:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Date from dd-mmm-yyyy

The following should do it:

require 'date'

d = Date.strptime("10-Aug-2005", "%d-%b-%Y")
d.strptime("%F") #=> "2005-08-10"

-Patrick

On 8/10/05, Chris Roos <chris@seagul.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just spent a short while creating a couple of methods that take a
> string representing a date (in the format dd-mmm-yyyy, e.g. 10-Aug-2005)
> and return an actual date object.
> 
> I did do some research before writing it but couldn't find anything
> relevant that already did this.
> 
> Now that I've done it I wonder if someone could let me know whether
> there is in fact something that already does this and I've just missed it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
>