Merge pull request travisjeffery#111 from yaauie/more-issue-108

Provide correct defaults for Date::strptime

Author: travisjeffery

lib/timecop/time_extensions.rb

@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ def today_with_mock_date
 
     alias_method :strptime_without_mock_date, :strptime
 
-    def strptime_with_mock_date(str, fmt)
+    def strptime_with_mock_date(str = '-4712-01-01', fmt = '%F', start = Date::ITALY)
+      unless start == Date::ITALY
+        raise ArgumentError, "Timecop's #{self}::#{__method__} only " +
+                             "supports Date::ITALY for the start argument."
+      end
+
       Time.strptime(str, fmt).to_date
     end
 

test/timecop_test.rb

@@ -494,6 +494,12 @@ def test_date_strptime_without_year
     end
   end
 
+  def test_date_strptime_without_specifying_format
+    Timecop.freeze(Time.new(1984,2,28)) do
+      assert_equal Date.strptime('1999-04-14'), Date.new(1999, 4, 14)
+    end
+  end
+
   private
 
   def with_safe_mode(enabled=true)