Bug #6818: Incorrect Date.parse results

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

[babak (Babak B)]

Since this is a standard library and I couldn't find a dedicated page for the Date module

require 'time

Date.parse '07/31/2012'
ArgumentError: invalid date
from (pry):3:in `parse'

In the United States, MM/DD/YYYY is perhaps the most common way to write dates. I found somewhere in prior posts suggestions to convert to Euro style which may alson include DD/MM/YYYY but that is not correct for US. There should at least be a way to choose the region, it can not always be deduced from syntax of date alone.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Priority changed from 5 to 3

Pissed off.

I hereby propose to deprecate this feature.

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Status changed from Open to Rejected

it is not a bug.
us is minority.
i think we should just ignore the case, so far.