From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T04:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: funny date parsing

On Apr 4, 2:51 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Junkone wrote:
> > i enter 2008 and it becomes 0008
>
> > irb(main):009:0> Date.parse("04-Feb-08").strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
> > => "0008-02-04"
>
> You've entered 08, not 2008.
>
> David
>
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oh ok. but all my date formats are like that and i am trying to import
it. is n't there a y2k rule somewhere on detecting 08 as 2008. i could
be wrong. can someone give me a workaround there.

seede