From: Hardy Henneberg Date: 2005-10-31T22:59:18+09:00 Subject: Re: create Date from Monthname Thanks, that's what I was looking for. BTW - do you have a link to a site defining these formatting symbols ? regards Hardy WATANABE Hirofumi wrote: >Hi, > >Hardy Henneberg writes: > > > >>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. >> >> > >% ruby -rdate -e 'puts Date.strptime("28/Sep/2005", "%d/%b/%Y")' >2005-09-28 > > >