strftime is not recognizing american format in ruby on rails

Question

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.

pje · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-16T19:38:04.700

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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

edited Oct 16 '12 at 19:38

answered Oct 16 '12 at 19:22

pje

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Actually the problem is that the date is not coming to controller if it exceeds 12. – Sachin Prasad Oct 16 '12 at 20:09
@SachinPrasad: it's hard to tell why that happens without seeing the code. – pje Oct 17 '12 at 02:05

strftime is not recognizing american format in ruby on rails

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