From: "christriddle@..." Date: 2007-10-12T22:40:08+09:00 Subject: DateTime confusion Hello! Wondered if anyone could help... I'm trying to parse a datetime date = DateTime.parse("200701011900") Which gives me a datetime. When i print it, it gives: 2007-01-01T19:00:00+00:00=> nil but when I try: print date.year it gives me an unknown method error.... any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Cheers! Chris