I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am wondering if there is some intelligence in Ruby that knows that at the moment I am in Mexico, as the parsing is working as if I was
"6/15/2008".to_date => ArgumentError: invalid date "15/6/2008".to_date => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 What I really want is my date to be understood as month/day/year. Is there a way to tell Ruby or Rails to do this? Been poking around on google and do not see an answer that works here. I found a page with this example, which makes me think maybe there is something weird going on due to my geographic location: '06/15/2008'.to_date <http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/Conversions/to_date> # => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
