From: Ray Baxter <ray.baxter@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T14:13:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives error???


On Jun 7, 2008, at 9:43 PM, miles.sterrett@gmail.com wrote:

> On Jun 8, 12:04 am, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.r...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> but that's not the format I get the data in :(  I'm in Australia.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> On 6/8/08, Nicolas Pelletier <nicolas.pelleti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Greg Hauptmann
>>> <greg.hauptmann.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives me an error?
>>
>>> Try:
>>
>>> Date.parse("03/28/2008")
>>
>>> --
>>> Nico
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps this link I found can be of use:
> http://source.mihelac.org/2006/9/13/parsing-european-date-format-in-ruby-rails

That would work, but so would this:

Date.strptime('28/03/2008', '%d/%m/%Y')



Ray