albertopq/jquery_datepicker — pull request #19 by cure (2012-04-30 01:46:13+00:00)
Title: Handle non-US Date formats

Stop using Date.parse. it does not support d/m/Y format on Ruby 1.8.x, and it does not support m/d/Y format on Ruby 1.9.

Cf.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/634