On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Tom Tom <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I initially setup the default setting for the dates in the database to
> follow this format: '1979-09-21', but I would like to change this to:
> '09-21-1979'.

Why would you care about the internal format of a Date in the DB?
Let ActiveRecord and your database adapter take care of that.

If your code deals with dates, use Date or DateTime -- not a String
masquerading as a date.  :-)

And apologies in advance if I've misunderstood your issue.

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