Are you in Rails or straight Ruby? Rails to_s from dates is different from Ruby's. Actually it looks like you are in Rails because .to_datetime is part of ActiveSupport.
Your first attempt works for me using edge rails. It could be you have a default date/time format that to_datetime isn't able to parse. What does d.to_s return? I get "09/22/2008". Have you changed the default formatter in your initializers maybe? Hope that helps. -Brad On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Glenn Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not figuring out how to convert a Time or DateTime into > a string, and then back into an equivalent object. Initial > attempts were the obvious: > > >> d = DateTime.now > => Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:29:05 -0700 > >> d == d.to_s.to_datetime <-- "should" return true > => false > >> d.to_s.to_datetime.to_s > => "2008-09-22T15:29:05+00:00" > > > So then I tried using the parse() methods: > > >> d = DateTime.now > => Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:22:07 -0700 > >> d == DateTime.parse(d.to_s) <-- "should" return true > => false > >> d > => Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:22:07 -0700 > >> DateTime.parse(d.to_s) > => Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:22:07 -0700 > >> d.to_s > => "2008-09-22T15:22:07-07:00" > >> DateTime.parse(d.to_s).to_s > => "2008-09-22T15:22:07-07:00" > >> d.to_s == DateTime.parse(d.to_s).to_s > => true > > Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks! > > -glenn > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
