Convert string to date

[aonomike]

How do you handle converting strings to dates?

[cjbell]

@aonomike I mostly use Timex (https://hexdocs.pm/timex/Timex.html) to do this. Process usually looks something like:

use Timex

{:ok, result} = Timex.parse("2016-02-29", "{YYYY}-{0M}-{D}")