title: How can I get Rails to interpret a text field as a datetime
body: <p>My database has a datetime field, and I want to be able to create new entries. Obviously the <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001700" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rails datetime_select helper</a> isn't the most user friendly thing to have in your form.</p>
  
  <p>I'd rather have a text field for the datetime (or one for the date, and one for the time) and interpret the inputs like <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PHP strtotime</a> can.</p>
  
  <p>I might just be searching the wrong keywords. Surely this has been discussed in great depth somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>
  
  <p>:0)</p>