In Ruby, how to parse “9/12/2010 7:02pm”?

Question

It seems that Time.parse will treat 9/12/2010 as December 9, 2010:

irb(main):012:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.2"

irb(main):013:0> Time.parse('9/12/2010')
=> 2010-12-09 00:00:00 -0800

irb(main):014:0> Time.parse('9/12/2010 7:10pm')
=> 2010-12-09 19:10:00 -0800

I can use Regex to mess with the order and parse accordingly, but is there a different method or gem or any simpler method?

Answer 1

have you tried

Date.strptime('28/03/2008', '%d/%m/%Y')
DateTime.strptime('28/03/2008 12:30 AM', '%d/%m/%Y %I:%M %p')

updated formatting should work

Answer 2

Using the chronic gem seems to work for me

Time.parse('9/12/2010 7:10pm')    
 => Sun Sep 12 19:10:00 -0500 2010