From: David Teare <dteare@...>
Date: 2005-10-31T22:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: create Date from Monthname

DateTime.parse works for me when using the format "2005-Oct-12".  I  
tried with yours, and it doesn't like the slashes, but it was smart  
enough to figure out the order of the date:

require 'date'
d = DateTime.parse("28-Sep-2005")
d.to_s => "2005-09-28T00:00:00Z"

So, I would just do a gsub before calling parse.  i.e.  d =  
DateTime.parse("28/Sep/2005".gsub!("/", "-"))

HTH

On 31-Oct-05, at 8:23 AM, Hardy Henneberg wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a string of format: '28/Sep/2005'.
> I am looking for the easiest way to create a Date from that string.
> I don't want to make my own conversion of monthname to monthnumber  
> if not needed.
>
> regards
> Hardy
>
>