From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T04:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: funny date parsing

On Apr 4, 3:03 pm, Chris Shea <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 12:55 pm, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 4, 2:51 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi --
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> > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Junkone wrote:
> > > > i enter 2008 and it becomes 0008
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> > > > irb(main):009:0> Date.parse("04-Feb-08").strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
> > > > => "0008-02-04"
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> > > You've entered 08, not 2008.
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> > > 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.
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> > seede
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> Date.parse has an optional second argument for handling near-2000 two-
> digit years.
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> 001:0> Date.parse('04-Feb-08', true).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
> "2008-02-04"
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> See documentation here:http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Date.html#M000656
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> HTH,
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thanks for the info