Mark Thomas wrote: >> >> I end up getting the ArgumentError - invalid date. Please let me know if >> I am doing anything incorrect here. > > Doesn't look like it. > Date.strptime("05/16/2008", '%m/%d/%Y').to_s > works for me. Does it have anything to do with the version of Ruby/Rails ? I'm using Rails 1.1.6 and Ruby 1.8.4. Another wierd thing about this is dateStr.to_time works while dateStr.to_date again gives me the same exception. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.