From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-04-04T22:37:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Hamburg.rb meeting... Stephan K�mper writes: > Christian Neukirchen wrote: >> Stephan K�mper writes: >> >>>irb >>>irb(main):001:0> require 'time' >>>=> true >>>irb(main):002:0> Time.parse( "2005/04/06 18:00" ) >>>=> Wed Apr 06 18:00:00 Westeurop�ische Sommerzeit 2005 >>>irb(main):003:0> >> BTW, is there a way to make it display CEST on win32 too? > > > I'd be interested in an answer to this question, too. > A positive one, to be precise. :-) > > Anyway, it's not trivial I'd guess, since the abbreviations aren't > unique, although CEST is (at least as far as I know). > So even if you could make your Win32 system return "CEST" (or "MESZ" > as it's abbreviated in Germany) you'd probably be out of luck if you > take your note book with you to another place... But it should be possible to get the offset and map that onto a timezone table... > Happy rubying > > Stephan > -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org