create Date from Monthname

[Hardy Henneberg]

Hi,
I have a string of format: '28/Sep/2005'.
I am looking for the easiest way to create a Date from that string.
I don't want to make my own conversion of monthname to monthnumber if
not needed.

regards
Hardy

 

[David Teare]

DateTime.parse works for me when using the format "2005-Oct-12". I
tried with yours, and it doesn't like the slashes, but it was smart
enough to figure out the order of the date:

require 'date'
d = DateTime.parse("28-Sep-2005")
d.to_s => "2005-09-28T00:00:00Z"

So, I would just do a gsub before calling parse. i.e. d =
DateTime.parse("28/Sep/2005".gsub!("/", "-"))

HTH

 

[WATANABE Hirofumi]

Hi,

Hi,
I have a string of format: '28/Sep/2005'.
I am looking for the easiest way to create a Date from that string.
I don't want to make my own conversion of monthname to monthnumber if
not needed.

% ruby -rdate -e 'puts Date.strptime("28/Sep/2005", "%d/%b/%Y")'
2005-09-28

 

[Hardy Henneberg]

Thanks,
that's what I was looking for.
BTW - do you have a link to a site defining these formatting symbols ?

regards Hardy

 

[Stefan Lang]

Thanks,
that's what I was looking for.
BTW - do you have a link to a site defining these formatting
symbols ?

I guess they are the same as those documented under:

% ri Time#strftime

HTH,
Stefan

 

[Hardy Henneberg]

Thank you.
/Hardy

I guess they are the same as those documented under:

% ri Time#strftime

HTH,
Stefan