Backport #3327: Date.parse returns incorrect result when text date delimited with "_"

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -

[rwagenet (Ralph Wagenet)]

=begin
Date.parse('01_01_2010')
=> #<Date: 2010-05-01 (4910635/2,0,2299161)>

ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-13 revision 27783) [x86_64-darwin10.3.0]
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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

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Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:30338] [Backport #3327] Date.parse returns incorrect result when text date delimited with "_""
on Fri, 21 May 2010 06:12:23 +0900, Ralph Wagenet [e-mail] writes:

|Date.parse('01_01_2010')
|=> #<Date: 2010-05-01 (4910635/2,0,2299161)>
|
|ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-13 revision 27783) [x86_64-darwin10.3.0]

First, Date.parse does not support the date strings delimited by "_".

Second, Date.parse ignores trailing garbage.

Third, Date.parse parses single number as a day of the current month,
so that "01_01_2010" is considered as "01" which means the first day
of the current month (May 2010).

						matz.

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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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