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The strftime method shows all the Ruby directives for different representations of time. This allows you to deal with tricky scenarios of ambiguous timestamps.
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using_strptime.rb
~|||$ irb
re2.0.0p353 :001 > require 'Time'
=> true
2.0.0p353 :002 > Time.strptime("12/22/2011", "%m/%d/%Y")
=> 2011-12-22 00:00:00 -0700
2.0.0p353 :003 > Time.strptime("12/11/2011", "%m/%d/%Y")
=> 2011-12-11 00:00:00 -0700
2.0.0p353 :004 > Time.strptime("12/11/2011", "%d/%m/%Y")
=> 2011-11-12 00:00:00 -0700
2.0.0p353 :005 >
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