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How to change Faker date format to yield date in "DD/MM/YYYY" format?

I am using Faker to generate a random Birthdate and feed the same in a Date input box in DD/MM/YYYY format through my automation script.

I tried this below snippet, however, it returns a date in YYYY/MM/DD format. I tried changing the from and to date format to DD/MM/YYYY as well, but no luck.

  def self.get_birth_date
    Faker::Date.between(from: '1950/01/01', to: '2001/12/31')
  end

Would appreciate, if someone from the group can help. Thanks!

Solution

  • You could use strftime method:

    Faker::Date.between(from: '1950/01/01', to: '2001/12/31').strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

    It will return "29/05/1969"