Parsing string dates in ruby such as "28-May-10"

Question

I tried parsing using

Date.parse("28-May-10").to_s

Returns 0010-5-28 (which is 2000 years off!)

How can I get ruby to interpret the two digit year properly.

There are plenty of string to date conversion tricks out there on google but most handle digit months as opposed to "May".

I've got the right result - "2010-05-28", check you environment, make sure "require 'date'" — megas, Mar 15 '12 at 20:49
I required date and wound up with the same thing as the OP on Ruby 1.8.7 — ScottJShea, Mar 15 '12 at 20:51
maybe thats why i'm still on ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [universal-darwin11.0] (Latest before the leap to 1.9) — Tarang, Mar 15 '12 at 20:58

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '12 at 20:55

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I prefer Date.strptime for this task:

require 'date'
puts Date.strptime("28-May-10", "%d-%b-%y") #2010-05-28

answered Mar 15 '12 at 20:55

knut

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