How to parse dates of format DD/MM/YYYY?

[PhilAndrew]

In Hong Kong and Australia we do dates as 20/10/1984 meaning 20th October 1984.

How can I parse that date?

[amferraz]

I'm in this very same situation. Currently, my two guesses are:

1. Fork the project and change it accordingly.
2. Support ambiguity natively and let the user choose based on Locale information.

The second one seems to be the right way to do it, but also much more complex.

[PhilAndrew]

What I did is I did a regex to match the date string 20/10/1974, so once I matched this string I then adjusted the order of the digits so that it becomes 1974/10/20, basically the reverse.

Then I passed it to natty and natty was happy. So basically I was pre-processing the string before passing it to natty in the form that natty understands.

Hey, there's a world out there that uses strings in DD/MM/YYYY format !

[PhilAndrew]

This is my codes which solves this issue, of course not intended to fix the issue, just to solve the problem as a workaround.

http://pastebin.com/ZhW9wTbz

[eytanbiala]

+1

[eytanbiala]

Is there any update on this issue?