Re: [Rails] Normalize dates taht are entered in more then one way.

On 18 July 2013 15:35, Mark Kenney <markkenney22@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a function, gem, etc. that will help to unify dates as they
> come in different formats. If the date comes in
> (1/2/2012,2012-01-02,01-02-2012,20120102,01022012, etc.) it would be nice to
> have it come out 2012-01-02. I've searched for a few days and only find ways
> to convert this format to that format. I might be using the wrong search
> terms and this may have already been addressed, if so, I apologize. In my
> previous PERL app I wrote a long If Else type converter that would test the
> date and then convert it in a specific order but I'm sure someone has solved
> it better then I could.

Where are the dates coming from?

Colin

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