From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T00:44:14+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime confusion

christriddle@googlemail.com wrote:
> 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

It works fine for me, although I wouldn't name the variable 'date' since 
it is the same name as the file you are including.

require 'date'

date = DateTime.parse("200701011900")
puts date.year

--output:--
2007
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