From: "Eric I." <rubytraining@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T07:58:39+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC-822 dates into Ruby dates

On Jun 8, 6:12 pm, kellygreer1 <kellygre...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Whats the right way in Ruby to pull these kind of dates apart into a
> Ruby Date?
>
> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:25:00 GMT

Hi Kelly,

The DateTime class (in library 'date') can parse those strings.

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require 'date'
d = DateTime.parse("Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:25:00 GMT")
puts d.year
puts d.hour
puts d.zone
# and so forth...  *or*
puts d.strftime "%Y %H %Z"

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Hope that helps,

Eric

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