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Francesco Belladonna
Francesco Belladonna

Reputation: 11729

strptime and I18n, how to parse a date for current language

I'm using strptime to parse a date formatted in dd/mm/YYYY format, however I just thought that simply parsing in this way will break i18n support, because if my customer is using a different language I will try to parse it in my format, while I want it to use date.formats.default format in that function.

How to achieve this?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2171

Answers (2)

Francesco Belladonna
Francesco Belladonna

Reputation: 11729

I solved my problem in this way:

Date.strptime(params[:date], I18n.translate('date.formats.default'))

Upvotes: 20

adc
adc

Reputation: 781

If you are using Date or Time you can use .to_s to apply default format

Date.today.to_s
Time.now.to_s

Upvotes: 0

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