From: Mark Thomas <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-06-25T22:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives error???

> Unfortunately for me, the solution by Ray doesn't seem to work too. For
> instance I'm doing this..
>
> dateStr = params[:startdate].to_s
> logger.info "date - " + dateStr
> startdate =Date.strptime(dateStr, '%m/%d/%Y').to_s
>
> and though I get the string quite correctly as
>
> date - 05/16/2008
>
> I end up getting the ArgumentError - invalid date. Please let me know if
> I am doing anything incorrect here.

Doesn't look like it.
  Date.strptime("05/16/2008", '%m/%d/%Y').to_s
works for me.