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

regards Hardy

WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Hardy Henneberg <hh / hhenne.dk> writes:
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>>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.
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>% ruby -rdate -e 'puts Date.strptime("28/Sep/2005", "%d/%b/%Y")'
>2005-09-28
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