Date.new('2007-09-01') not legal?

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Is that form of creating a new date object really not legal? If so, that
seems mighty odd.

– gw

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Subject: Date.new(‘2007-09-01’) not legal?

Is that form of creating a new date object really not legal?
If so, that seems mighty odd.

Try Date.parse(‘2007-09-01’).

  • doanld
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Is that form of creating a new date object really not legal?
If so, that seems mighty odd.

Try Date.parse(‘2007-09-01’).

Whew :slight_smile:

Weird, but I don’t see this documented anywhere in “Programming Ruby”

Thanks!

– gw

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On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:52 , Greg W. wrote:

Is that form of creating a new date object really not legal? If so,
that
seems mighty odd.

You want Date.parse.

$ ri Date.new
-------------------------------------------------------------- Date::new
Date::new(ajd=0, of=0, sg=ITALY)

  NOTE this is the documentation for the method new!(). If you are
  reading this as the documentation for new(), that is because rdoc
  doesn't fully support the aliasing of the initialize() method.
  new() is in fact an alias for #civil(): read the documentation for
  that method instead.

  Create a new Date object.

  ajd is the Astronomical Julian Day Number. of is the offset from
  UTC as a fraction of a day. Both default to 0.

  sg specifies the Day of Calendar Reform to use for this Date
  object.

  Using one of the factory methods such as Date::civil is generally
  easier and safer.