From: John Butler <johnnybutler7@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T21:54:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Format natural date

Todd Benson wrote:
> 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

Ok i see, i didnt explain myself properly, i wanted to turn "May 23, 
2008" into a date and then output it as 23/05/2008"

Below works fine.

Date.strptime("May 23, 2008", '%B %d, %Y').strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
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