title: How to reverse Date.parse()
body: <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>require 'Date'
  
  s = "I'm going away on Oct 2, 2012th"
  puts Date.parse(s)
  
  =&gt; 2012-10-02 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to delete the date from my strings, that I found with <code>Date.parse(s)</code>. The problem is, I know that there is a date, but not how it was written in the string. I know that <code>Date.parse</code> found it and converted "2012-10-02" to a new format.</p>