From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-22T01:45:45+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime.parse and long time zone names



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ara.T.Howard [mailto:Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:36 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: DateTime.parse and long time zone names
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone out there have a patch to date/format.rb (i.e.
> > DateTime.parse) that handles long time zones, e.g. 
> "Mountain Daylight 
> > Time" versus "MDT"?
> >
> > I thought I would ask before I started hacking on it.
> 
>    irb(main):014:0> Time::parse "Wed Oct 19 15:33:41 Mountain 
> Daylight Time 2005"
>    => Wed Oct 19 15:33:41 MDT 2005
> 
>    irb(main):015:0> RUBY_VERSION
>    => "1.9.0"
> 
> maybe you can upgrade only this file... dunno.
> 
> -a

I'm too paranoid to use a 1.9 lib, so I resorted to this:

LONG_TZ = /(Mountain|Central|Eastern|Pacific)+\s(\w+?)\s(\w+?)\s.*/

# Where +time+ is the result of a Time.now.to_s call
if match = LONG_TZ.match(time)
   tz = ""
   old = match.captures.join(" ")
   match.captures.each{ |word| tz += word[0].chr }
   time.sub!(old, tz)
end

Regards,

Dan