Date.strptime throwing invalid date for “%Y%W” format

Question

My date = 1st January, 2015. I did date_formatted = date.strftime('%Y%W') which returned "201500"

Then when am trying to do Date.strptime(date_formatted, '%Y%W') it's throwing an invalid date error even though the original string was returned from strptime's counterpart srftime.

Answer 1

Found the solution. Time.strptime(date_formatted, '%Y%W') is what will work here.