From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-06-27T12:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime problem

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Morton Goldberg wrote:
>> Something like this?
>> <code>
>> require "ParseDate"
>> DA = ["Apr", "2", "2007"]
>> args = ParseDate.parsedate("#{DA[1]} #{DA[0]} #{DA[2]}")
>> date = Time.local(*args).strftime(<<FMT)
>> \tday   = %d
>> \tmonth = %m
>> \tyear  = %y
>> FMT
>> puts date
>> </code>
>> <result>
>>     day   = 02
>>     month = 04
>>     year  = 07
>> </resutl>
>> Regards, Morton
>
> Same idea, but slightly simpler...
>
> da = ["Apr", "2", "2007"]
> time = Time.parse(da.join(" "))
> puts time.strftime(<<FMT)
> \tday   = %d
> \tmonth = %m
> \tyear  = %y
> FMT
>
> __END__
>
> Output:
>
> 	day   = 02
> 	month = 04
> 	year  = 07

Yes, that's better. But don't you need a 'require "time"' at the  
beginning? I needed it to make it work in my somewhat obsolescent  
version of Ruby. Is it now part of the standard library?

Regards, Morton