From: Patrick Fernie <patrick.fernie@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T02:12:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Date from dd-mmm-yyyy

Urp, last line should be:
d.strftime("%F") #=> "2005-08-10"

-P

On 8/10/05, Patrick Fernie <patrick.fernie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>