From: Josselin <josselin@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T15:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseDate in local format...

On 2006-07-25 18:26:52 +0200, Bojan Mihelac <lists@mihelac.org> said:

> 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

thanks a lot...
as always .....one vision of the world = one vision of the time = one 
vision of the date