From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-06T01:16:23+09:00
Subject: Re: i have some challenges with the date

On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Junkone wrote:

> 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"

You can specify a format for the parse:

 >> Date.strptime("02/01/2009", "%d/%m/%Y").to_s
=> "2009-01-02"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II