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Date.parse() with Ruby 1.9 is now defaulting to the European date style, John Wayne would be sad, and our apps don't work right, so this fixes it
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# Date.parse() with Ruby 1.9 is now defaulting to the European date style where the format is DD/MM/YYYY, not MM/DD/YYYY | |
# patch it to use US format by default | |
class Date | |
class << self | |
alias :euro_parse :_parse | |
def _parse(str,comp=false) | |
str = str.to_s.strip | |
if str == '' | |
{} | |
elsif str =~ /^(\d{1,2})[-\/](\d{1,2})[-\/](\d{2,4})/ | |
year,month,day = $3.to_i,$1,$2 | |
date,*rest = str.split(' ') | |
year += (year < 35 ? 2000 : 1900) if year < 100 | |
euro_parse("#{year}-#{month}-#{day} #{rest.join(' ')}",comp) | |
else | |
euro_parse(str,comp) | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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@bbhoss my guess is another require/include is overwriting _parse without an alias after the euro_parse monkeys run