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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:59:02+00:00

I would like to check the iso8601 format for the date entered in ruby

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I would like to check the iso8601 format for the date entered in ruby , like start_date = “2011/05/05” should be matched for the format 2011-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 and errors returned accordingly.
Should we use regex here or any method is present for this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sounds like you want Time.iso8601:

    require 'time'
iso = Time.iso8601(start_date)

    See this blog post for more information.

    EDIT: Here’s a short but complete test program which works:

    require 'time'
text = "2011-05-05T00:00:00-04:00"
parsed = Time.iso8601(text)
puts parsed

    Output:

    Thu May 05 04:00:00 UTC 2011
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