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class method

Date.rfc822

Date.rfc2822(string='Mon, 1 Jan -4712 00:00:00 +0000'[, start=Date::ITALY], limit: 128) → date
Date.rfc822(string='Mon, 1 Jan -4712 00:00:00 +0000'[, start=Date::ITALY], limit: 128) → date

Creates a new Date object by parsing from a string according to some typical RFC 2822 formats.

Example
Date.rfc2822('Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0000')
                                          #=> #<Date: 2001-02-03 ...>

Raise an ArgumentError when the string length is longer than limit. You can stop this check by passing ‘limit: nil`, but note that it may take a long time to parse.

See also #rfc822 ._rfc822 ._strptime .rfc3339 also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1