does chronic have any options of date format it parses? (ruby)
chronic, date, ruby
Solution
I've found this question today, 20 months after it has been asked. It seems that there is a way to indicate to swap months and days. Just use the `:endian_precedence` option:
:endian_precedence (Array) — default: [:middle, :little] — By default, Chronic will parse "03/04/2011" as the fourth day of the third month. Alternatively you can tell Chronic to parse this as the third day of the fourth month by altering the `:endian_precedence` to `[:little, :middle]`
Example here:
Chronic.parse('12-02-2010').strftime('%d %b %Y') #=> 02 Dec 2010
Chronic.parse('12-02-2010', :endian_precedence => [:little, :median]).strftime('%d %b %Y') #=> 12 Feb 2010
Hope this helps!
Dorian
Problem
I need to tell chronic that the format of date is day-month-year is that possible? The data I pass to chronic could also be words today/yesterday/2 days ago. Currently chronic gives me `2 Dec 2010` instead of `12 Feb 2010` from `12-02-2010` The only solution I can think of is to swap day and month before passing the string to chronic. ``` require 'chronic' puts "12-02-2010 = #{Chronic.parse('12-02-2010')}" #should be 12 Feb 2010 puts "yesteday = #{Chronic.parse('yesterday')}" #working ok puts "Today = #{Chronic.parse('today')}" #working ok ```