From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T21:44:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Format natural date

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM, John Butler <johnnybutler7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to format a natural date like May 7, 2008 to 07/05/2008.
> Ive tried
> Date.strptime("May 7, 2008", '%d/%m/%Y') without success?
>
> Is it possible to this in a one line with ruby?
>
> JB

Yes, but I don't know why you would want to.

#strptime builds a Date object from your string with your format.
Then, you must format it.

If you don't need the Date object, I would just perform the magic on
the string itself.  Matching month abbreviations to month numbers can
be done with Date::ABBR_MONTHNAMES.

hth,

Todd