Greg Hauptmann wrote: > 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. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.