to_date() public

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June 15, 2012
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Month-first date string no longer parses correctly

The following date format won’t be parsed correctly:

'06/15/2008'.to_date

Use this instead:

Date.strptime("6/15/2012", '%m/%d/%Y')
November 28, 2012 - (>= v3.0.0)
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String to date conversion not necessarily symmetric

Note that converting from Date to String and back again is not necessarily symmetric, because the conversion to string may result in a format that is not properly converted by `to_date`.

For one thing, `to_date` sets the century argument in _parse to false. Thus if the default date format has a two-digit year, like the :short one, the century will be dropped.

Date.today.to_s.to_date #=> Mon, 28 Nov 0012