Rails - Jul 2006 - european date format

hi, overhere users go nuts if they have to enter the date in iso format, 
so i have to make my applications in such a way that not only dates are 
displayed in the "dd-mm-yyy" format but also can be entered in that
way.

somewhere i found this code to put in the environment script:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
:default => ''%d/%m/%Y @ %H:%M: %p'' )
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
:default => ''%d/%m/%Y'' )


this works great for displaying dates, the only problem is i can''t
input
a new date anymore:

i tried:
- the date_select control => doesn''t work anymore
- text_field with input ''dd-mm-yyyy'' =>doesn''t
work
- text_field with input ''yyyy-mm-dd'' =>doesn''t
work either ???

How should i handle this? there must be a lot of developers facing 
simular problems i guess

thanx remco


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Remco Hh wrote:
> hi, overhere users go nuts if they have to enter the date in iso format, 
> so i have to make my applications in such a way that not only dates are 
> displayed in the "dd-mm-yyy" format but also can be entered in
that way.
> 
> somewhere i found this code to put in the environment script:
> 
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
> :default => ''%d/%m/%Y @ %H:%M: %p'' )
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
> :default => ''%d/%m/%Y'' )
> 
> 
> this works great for displaying dates, the only problem is i can''t
input
> a new date anymore:
> 
> i tried:
> - the date_select control => doesn''t work anymore
> - text_field with input ''dd-mm-yyyy''
=>doesn''t work
> - text_field with input ''yyyy-mm-dd''
=>doesn''t work either ???
> 
> How should i handle this? there must be a lot of developers facing 
> simular problems i guess
> 
> thanx remco
> 
> 
Hi Remco, you can replace parsedate method so it would allow european 
format, for example:

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

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Remco Hh escribió:
> hi, overhere users go nuts if they have to enter the date in iso format, 
> so i have to make my applications in such a way that not only dates are 
> displayed in the "dd-mm-yyy" format but also can be entered in
that way.
>
> somewhere i found this code to put in the environment script:
>
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
> :default => ''%d/%m/%Y @ %H:%M: %p'' )
> ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( 
> :default => ''%d/%m/%Y'' )
>
>
> this works great for displaying dates, the only problem is i can''t
input
> a new date anymore:
>
> i tried:
> - the date_select control => doesn''t work anymore
> - text_field with input ''dd-mm-yyyy''
=>doesn''t work
> - text_field with input ''yyyy-mm-dd''
=>doesn''t work either ???
>
> How should i handle this? there must be a lot of developers facing 
> simular problems i guess
>
> thanx remco
>
>
>   
For display the dates I use a helper:

module ApplicationHelper
  def eu_date(date)
    return date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y") unless date.nil?
    nil
  end
end



		
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