convert String to DateTime

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I need to parse following String into a DateTime Object:
30/Nov/2009:16:29:30 +0100

Is there an easy way to do this?

PS: I want to convert the string above as is. The colon after the year is not a typo. I also want to solve the problem with Ruby and not RoR.

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8 Answers

Shouldn't this also work for Rails?

"30/Nov/2009 16:29:30 +0100".to_datetime
user_1481450

DateTime.strptime allows you to specify the format and convert a String to a DateTime.

user_1792330

in Ruby 1.8, the ParseDate module will convert this and many other date/time formats. However, it does not deal gracefully with the colon between the year and the hour. Assuming that colon is a typo and is actually a space, then:

#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8

require 'parsedate'

s = "30/Nov/2009 16:29:30 +0100"
p Time.mktime(*ParseDate.parsedate(s))    # =>  Mon Nov 30 16:29:30 -0700 2009
user_2388860

You can parse a date time string with a given timezone as well:

zone = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)"
ActiveSupport::TimeZone[zone].parse("2020-05-24 18:45:00")
=> Sun, 24 May 2020 18:45:00 PDT -07:00
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