From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T19:47:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby date conversion

On 4/30/07, Singeo <singeo.sg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a text file with dates stored in the following format:
>
> 30/04/07 16:52:00 +0800
>
> I need to convert these dates to RFC-822 so the above would become:
>
> Mon, 30 Apr 2002 16:52:00 +0800
>
> Can someone help me with the Ruby code required to do this? I've bveen
> trying to do it using Time.parse but with no success.
>
> Thanks
>
I do this as lazily as possible:

irb(main):009:0> x="30/04/07 16:52:00 +0800"
=> "30/04/07 16:52:00 +0800"
irb(main):010:0> y,rest = x.split(/\s+/,2)
=> ["30/04/07", "16:52:00 +0800"]
irb(main):011:0> s=Date.strptime(y,"%y/%m/%d")
=> #<Date: 4925197/2,0,2299161>
irb(main):024:0> s.strftime("%a, %d %b %y") << rest
=> "Sun, 07 Apr 3016:52:00 +0800"

HTH
Robert


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