From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2011-03-09T07:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: formating date information

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> but how do I parse each date in turn and get a new array with the
standard date format ???

What you want is Array#map:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 :007 > a.map {|e| Date.parse(e.first).strftime("%d %b %Y") }
 => ["24 Aug 2010", "25 Aug 2010", "26 Aug 2010"]

(I'm not sure why each of your dates is in a single array, but that's why
you need that 'first'.)

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