From: Mark Thomas <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-06-26T04:27:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives error???

On Jun 25, 10:31 am, Shankar Narayanan <subscribe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Thomas wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Does it have anything to do with the version of Ruby/Rails ? I'm using
> Rails 1.1.6 and Ruby 1.8.4.  Another wierd thing about this is
> dateStr.to_time works while dateStr.to_date again gives me the same
> exception.

It might. I'm using 1.8.6