hello for some reason, the Date.strptime is mixing up my date. pl see here. the date changs from "6/13/2008" to "2020-06-13" irb(main):001:0> require 'date' => true irb(main):006:0> entry="6/13/2008" => "6/13/2008" irb(main):007:0> Date.strptime(entry,'%m/%d/%y') => #<Date: 4918027/2,0,2299161> irb(main):008:0> nowdate=Date.strptime(entry,'%m/%d/%y') => #<Date: 4918027/2,0,2299161> irb(main):009:0> nowdate.to_s => "2020-06-13"