ruby DateTime parsing from 'mm/dd/yyyy' format

Question

I am using ruby 1.9.3 and want to get Date or Time object from 'mm/dd/yyyy' date format string

Time.zone.parse("12/22/2011")

this is giving me *** ArgumentError Exception: argument out of range

Answer 1

require 'Date'
my_date = Date.strptime("12/22/2011", "%m/%d/%Y")