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              #
# &copy; 2009 Andrew Coleman
# Released under MIT license.
# http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
#
# total hack to allow american style date parsing.
# does not allow european-ish date parsing, sorry.
#
module AmericanDateMonkeyPatch
  def to_date
    if self =~ /(\d{1,2}).(\d{1,2}).(\d{4})/
      ::Date.civil($3.to_i, $1.to_i, $2.to_i)
    else
      ::Date.new(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday))
    end
  end
end
 
if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9'
  String.send :include, AmericanDateMonkeyPatch
end
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