On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Jesù¸ Gabriel y GaláÏ
<jgabrielygalan / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Clement Ow
>
> <clement.ow / asia.bnpparibas.com> wrote:

>  1.- Change DateTime.parse to DateTime.strptime passing a format
>  that describes where in the string you have the two digits of the day, the month
>  and the four digits of the date. I haven't been able to gather a quick example,
>  cause I don't find a reference for the format string (any help here
>  appreciated).
>  The doc refers me to the date/format.rb for details and I don't see
>  anything clear
>  there.

After a couple of trial/error tests this seems to work:

DateTime.strptime "16042008", "%d%M%Y"

So any of the two solutions will work for you.

Jesus.