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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 Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ray Baxter <ray.baxter / gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2008, at 9:43 PM, miles.sterrett / gmail.com wrote:
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>  On Jun 8, 12:04 am, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.r... / gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> but that's not the format I get the data in :(  I'm in Australia.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> On 6/8/08, Nicolas Pelletier <nicolas.pelleti... / gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Greg Hauptmann
>>>> <greg.hauptmann.r... / gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Date.parse("28/03/2008") gives me an error?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>  Try:
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Date.parse("03/28/2008")
>>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>>> Nico
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 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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