you might want to create a file: config/initializers/date_formats.rb and add the following line to that file... Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"
to set a default date format On Feb 4, 1:01 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Feb 2011, at 17:36, David Kahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ok, feel a little stupid, if I put the date in the form yyyy-mm-dd and then > > parse it I get the right result. Anyhow, this works as a resolution for me > > but is still I think an important question if in the case I was receiving > > dates in something like 'mm/dd/yyyy' how I can get it to parse right. > > You should probably use something like strptime rather than rely on ruby > guessing the format (which could be product of locale settings, heuristics > like 'if the first number is 15 then it can't be the month' and who knows > what else > > Fred > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, David Kahn <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > 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 # => 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 [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
