Question

When parsing a Jira Custom Field containing a date (e.g. 13/Nov/11) I started with this:

elsif custom.customfieldId == "customfield_10282"
@agenda_item.planned_release_date      =  custom.values.to_s

But the database stores it as 11/13/0011. So I got clever and used this:

elsif custom.customfieldId == "customfield_10282"
@agenda_item.planned_release_date      =  Date.strptime(custom.values, "%d/%m/%Y")

And now I get:

private method sub!' called for ["15/Nov/11"]:Jira4R::V2::ArrayOf_xsd_string
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:429:in_strptime_i’
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:401:in scan'
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:401:in_strptime_i’
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:601:in `_strptime’
[truncated the rest of the stack]

What am I missing?

Answer 1

This works:

p Date.strptime('13/Nov/11', "%d/%b/%y")

Your problems:

• `%Y is the year with 4 digits (2011). Use %y
• %m is the month in digits (11). Use %b instead (Nov)