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12/22/2014

05:38 PM Ruby Bug #10614: strpdate and Leap Days

Tsuyoshi Sawada wrote:
> `'02/29/2012'` clearly does not match `'%m/%d'`. What else would you expect than an argument error?
>> Date.strptime('01/01/2014', '%m/%d')
=> #<Date: 2014-01-01 ((2456659j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
I... cwoodcox (Corey Woodcox)

12/18/2014

03:03 AM Ruby Bug #10614 (Closed): strpdate and Leap Days

I'm experiencing an issue parsing dates and leap days.
When the format string includes the year, everything works as expected:
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>> Date.strptime('02/29/2012', '%m/%d/%Y')
=> #<Date: 2012-02-29 ((2455987j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
... cwoodcox (Corey Woodcox)