month name in localized date format getting mangled in a rails 3.1.3 app

Question

I have these date/time formats specified in my config/locales/en.yml file:

time:
  formats:
    long_date: "%B %d, %Y"
    medium_date: "%b %d, %Y"
    short_date: "%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p"
date:
  formats:
    long_date: "%B %d, %Y"
    medium_date: "%b %d, %Y"
    short_date: "%m/%d/%y"

And I'm trying to print a localized date like so in one of my views:

<%= l report.created_at, :format => :medium_date %>

But the month name is getting oddly mangled, with the resulting output

n 13, 2012

I get the same output when I use :format => :long_date.

When I use :format => :short_date, though, all is well, and I get:

03/13/12 07:53 am

I know it is something I did because it was working perfectly just a few days ago. Has anyone seen anything like this?

kclair kclair · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-13T22:25:56

figured this out. i had this in my en.yml file:

en:
  date: "Date"

... which of course overwrote the date: key for the date formats!

month name in localized date format getting mangled in a rails 3.1.3 app

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