Rails - Jun 2006 - parse only seem to understand US date format

I''ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret the
date
as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy?

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Try my plugin:

http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time

-Jonathan.

On 6/16/06, Mark Horgan <public@markhorgan.com>
wrote:
> I''ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret
the date
> as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy?
>
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Jonathan Viney wrote:
> Try my plugin:
> 
> http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time
> 
> -Jonathan.
Thanks, I''ll give it a go. Just have to figure out how to use plug-ins 
(newbie here)

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Have a look at the Rails wiki and the readme

http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time/README

-Jonathan.

On 6/16/06, Mark Horgan <public@markhorgan.com>
wrote:
> Jonathan Viney wrote:
> > Try my plugin:
> >
> > http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/validates_date_time
> >
> > -Jonathan.
>
> Thanks, I''ll give it a go. Just have to figure out how to use
plug-ins
> (newbie here)
>
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Mark Horgan wrote:
> I''ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret
the date
> as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy?
> 
You can easily override ParseDate to handle other formats, I did that 
for euro format dd.mm.yyyy.

require (''parsedate'')
module ParseDate
   class << self
     alias_method :old_parsedate, :parsedate unless 
method_defined?(:old_parsedate)
   end

   def self.parsedate(str)
     match = /(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{2,4})\.?/.match(str)
     return ParseDate.old_parsedate(str) unless match
     [match[3].to_i, match[2].to_i, match[1].to_i, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
   end
end

hope this helps you.
Bojan Mihelac

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