From: Bojan Mihelac <lists@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T01:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseDate in local format...

Josselin wrote:
> when a user choose a date from my datepicker calendar, an european local 
> startdate is displayed in the text field :    30/7/2006,   fine !
> 
> As I must add 10 days to this starting date  to 'ajax-modify'  the 
> ending date,
> I wrote the following method :
> 
> def startdateChanged
>     v = ParseDate::parsedate(@params["startdate"])               #=> 
> [2006, 30, 7, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
>     t = Time.local(v.compact*",")                 #=>   Sun Jan 01 
> 00:00:00 CET 2006   which is wrong
>     @enddate = (t+(84600*10)).strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
>      render(:partial => "enddate")
> end
> 
> the Time.local() is expected [2006, 7, 30, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
> 
> is there any way to parse the date according to a 'locale'  (fr_FR in 
> this case)
> 
> thanks
> 
> joss
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Here is how I do it to parse mm.dd.yyyy. dates:

require ('parsedate')
module ParseDate
   class << self
     alias_method :old_parsedate, :parsedate unless 
method_defined?(:old_parsedate)
   end

   def self.parsedate(str)
     match = /(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{2,4})\.?/.match(str)
     return ParseDate.old_parsedate(str) unless match
     [match[3].to_i, match[2].to_i, match[1].to_i, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
   end
end

Bojan

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