From: Junkone Date: 2009-01-06T01:10:13+09:00 Subject: i have some challenges with the date here i have a string date like this. 02/01/2009 : Format is DD/MM/YY however my date.parse switches the month and the day. how do i fix it. irb(main):011:0> Date.parse("02/01/2009").strftime('%Y-%m-%d') => "2009-02-01"