Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives error???

[Greg Hauptmann]

Hi,

Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives me an error?

I get:

ArgumentError: invalid date.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Versions:
Ruby 1.8.6
Rails 2.0.2

 

[Nicolas Pelletier]

Hello,

Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives me an error?

Try:

Date.parse("03/28/2008")

 

[Greg Hauptmann]

but that's not the format I get the data in I'm in Australia.

Any ideas?

 

[miles.sterrett]

but that's not the format I get the data in  I'm in Australia.

Any ideas?

Perhaps this link I found can be of use:
http://source.mihelac.org/2006/9/13/parsing-european-date-format-in-ruby-rails

 

[Ray Baxter]

Perhaps this link I found can be of use:
http://source.mihelac.org/2006/9/13/parsing-european-date-format-in-ruby-rails

That would work, but so would this:

Date.strptime('28/03/2008', '%d/%m/%Y')



Ray

 

[Greg Hauptmann]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

excellent thanks,
You'd think Ruby would provide some internationalisation type way of solving
this? (e.g. specifying your location/country or something). Guess not?

On Jun 7, 2008, at 9:43 PM, (e-mail address removed) wrote:


Perhaps this link I found can be of use:

http://source.mihelac.org/2006/9/13/parsing-european-date-format-in-ruby-rails

That would work, but so would this:

Date.strptime('28/03/2008', '%d/%m/%Y')



Ray
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[Shankar Narayanan]

excellent thanks,
You'd think Ruby would provide some internationalisation type way of
solving
this? (e.g. specifying your location/country or something). Guess not?

Hello,

Unfortunately for me, the solution by Ray doesn't seem to work too. For
instance I'm doing this..

dateStr = params[:startdate].to_s
logger.info "date - " + dateStr
startdate =Date.strptime(dateStr, '%m/%d/%Y').to_s

and though I get the string quite correctly as

date - 05/16/2008

I end up getting the ArgumentError - invalid date. Please let me know if
I am doing anything incorrect here.

Regards,
Shankar.

 

[Mark Thomas]

Unfortunately for me, the solution by Ray doesn't seem to work too. For

instance I'm doing this..

dateStr = params[:startdate].to_s
logger.info "date - " + dateStr
startdate =Date.strptime(dateStr, '%m/%d/%Y').to_s

and though I get the string quite correctly as

date - 05/16/2008

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.

 

[Shankar Narayanan]

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.

 

[Mark Thomas]

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