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require 'date'
module AdminData
class DateUtil
# returns a time object for the given input.
# validation is not done. It is assumed that client
# has done validation using .valid? method.
def self.valid?(input)
!!parse(input)
end
# Usage:
#
# parase('13-feb-2008') # => time object
# parse('13-February-2008') # => time object
# parse('13-February-2008') # => time object
# parse('99-Feb-2008') #=> false
#
def self.parse(input)
return false if input.blank?
input.strip!
# remove all the white space characters
input.gsub!(/\s/,'')
return false if input.length < 9
dd,mm,yyyy = input.split('-')
return false if dd.nil? || mm.nil? || yyyy.nil?
# month must be of atleast three characters
return false if mm.length < 3
mm = mm.downcase[0,3]
months = {'jan' => 1, 'feb' => 2, 'mar' => 3, 'apr' => 4, 'may' => 5, 'jun' => 6,
'jul' => 7, 'aug' => 8, 'sep' => 9, 'oct' => 10, 'nov' => 11, 'dec' => 12 }
return false unless months.keys.include? mm
mm = months[mm].to_i
yyyy = yyyy.to_i
dd = dd.to_i
# validate date values
begin
Date.new(yyyy,mm,dd)
rescue
return false
end
Time.now.change(:year => yyyy, :month => mm, :day => dd, :hour => 0)
end
end
end
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