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Sachin Prasad
Sachin Prasad

Reputation: 5411

Compare two date in ruby on rails

I have a date which is coming from the form in American format (MM-DD-YYYY) and now i want to compare it with the date from the database which is in utc.
And therefore i have to convert that date to utc,I'm doing this but its not working:

from_date = Date.strptime(params[:from_date], '%m-%d-%Y').utc

It is giving me error 

undefined method `utc' for Sat, 15 Dec 2012:Date

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1401

Answers (1)

tdgs
tdgs

Reputation: 1096

The #utc method is only defined for Time objects. If timezones are important for what you are trying to do, try

from_date = Date.strptime(params[:from_date], '%m-%d-%Y').to_time.utc

Also look at the documentation: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Time.html#method-i-utc

Upvotes: 5

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