Parsing Times and Dates : parse « Date « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. Date
  3. parse

Parsing Times and Dates


require 'parsedate'    
include ParseDate      # Include parsedate() as a global function
datestring = "2001-01-01"
values = parsedate(datestring)  # [2001, 1, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
t = Time.local(*values)         # => Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001
s = t.ctime                     # => "Mon Jan  1 00:00:00 2001"
Time.local(*parsedate(s))==t    # => true








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