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  convert string to datetime Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-07 05:12 -0500
    Re: convert string to datetime Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 05:22 -0500
      Re: convert string to datetime Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-07 05:55 -0500
        Re: convert string to datetime Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-07 20:55 -0500

#2443 — convert string to datetime

Hi folks:
Can anybody tell me how to convert a string format like "20110309" to a
datetime format as "m%/d%/y%"? Thanks.

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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> "20110309"

DateTime#parse:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/classes/DateTime.html#M000485


ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > d = "20110309"
 => "20110309"
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > require 'date'
 => true
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > date = DateTime.parse d
 => #<DateTime: 4911259/2,0,2299161>
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > date.to_s
 => "2011-03-09T00:00:00+00:00"

Jesus.

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"Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote in post 
#991424:
> DateTime#parse:

Or DateTime.strptime, if you want to be explicit about the format.

>> DateTime.strptime("20110309","%Y%m%d")
=> #<DateTime: 4911259/2,0,2299161>

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Brian Candler wrote in post #991430:
> "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote in post
> #991424:
>> DateTime#parse:
>
> Or DateTime.strptime, if you want to be explicit about the format.
>
>>> DateTime.strptime("20110309","%Y%m%d")
> => #<DateTime: 4911259/2,0,2299161>

Thanks mate, it works :)

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