From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T08:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: help with string matching

> @calendar1 is a gtk calendar widget, and within ruby calling
> @calendar1.date
> returns the date as 2007730, which caused Date.parse to crash as there
> is only 1 part instead of the expected 3. That is why I used the
> @calendar1.year @calendar1.month @calendar1.day, but @calendar1.month
> returns 0 based months, which is why I used @calendar1.month + 1, which
> works, but looks sloppy.

Ahh, I made some pretty bad assumptions about what you were trying to
do.  I'm sorry.

> So, how would you parse a date formated as 2007730 into 2007-06-30? I
> know that I could parse it out manually, but I'm assuming there is a
> more elegant solution.
>

I guess I would do this:

Date.civil(@calendar1.year, @calendar1.date + 1, @calendar1.day).to_s