From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-04-07T19:22:09+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string to datetime

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> "20110309"

DateTime#parse:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/classes/DateTime.html#M000485


ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > d = "20110309"
 => "20110309"
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > require 'date'
 => true
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > date = DateTime.parse d
 => #<DateTime: 4911259/2,0,2299161>
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > date.to_s
 => "2011-03-09T00:00:00+00:00"

Jesus.