Ruby/Date/parse

require "date"
puts Date.parse("2/9/2007").to_s
puts Date.parse("Wednesday, January 10, 2001").to_s

require "date"
puts Date.parse("2/9/07").to_s                          # => "0007-02-09"

require "parsedate"    
include ParseDate      # Include parsedate() as a global function
datestring = "2001-01-01"
values = parsedate(datestring)  # [2001, 1, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
t = Time.local(*values)         # => Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001
s = t.ctime                     # => "Mon Jan  1 00:00:00 2001"
Time.local(*parsedate(s))==t    # => true