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Sachin Prasad
Sachin Prasad

Reputation: 5411

strftime is not recognizing american format in ruby on rails

I have a date coming in this format "MM-DD-YYY" from view and i want to save it in datetime format. I'm trying to convert to datetime format using strftime but it is recognizing the date in "DD-MM-YYYY" format and therefore whenever my date exceeds 12 my code breaks.Please help.

After debugging i found another issue,the date is not coming when the date exceeds 12,which means if the date is not in "DD-MM-YYYY"fomat, it is not shown in the controller.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 808

Answers (1)

pje
pje

Reputation: 22707

You can parse a string with a specified formatting using DateTime.strptime:

str = '12-31-1999' # intended to mean "December 31st, 1999"
parsed = DateTime.strptime(str, '%m-%d-%Y')
parsed.month
# => 12

Upvotes: 3

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