From: Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T04:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: parsedate doesn't work on Time.now.to_s

Julian Gall wrote:
> require 'parsedate'
> Time.now
>           => Tue May 02 20:17:57 GMT Standard Time 2006
> ParseDate.parsedate(Time.now.to_s)
>           => [nil, 5, 2, 20, 17, 57, "GMT", 2]
> 
> It seems that parsedate is not able to detect the year from the standard 
> string conversion of a date/time. Is there another way to do this? Is it 
> the same in the US as for me here in the UK? It seems rather 
> inconsistent.

Hrmm.  Works for me (ruby 1.8.4)

reirb(main):001:0> require 'parsedate'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Time.now
=> Tue May 02 15:46:56 EDT 2006
irb(main):003:0> ParseDate.parsedate( Time.now.to_s )
=> [2006, 5, 2, 15, 47, 7, "EDT", 2]
irb(main):005:0> ENV['TZ']='GMT'
=> "GMT"
irb(main):006:0> Time.now
=> Tue May 02 19:47:24 GMT 2006
irb(main):007:0> ParseDate.parsedate( Time.now.to_s )
=> [2006, 5, 2, 19, 47, 27, "GMT", 2]


My guess is the "GMT Standard Time" is throwing it off.

irb(main):001:0> s = Time.now.to_s
=> "Tue May 02 15:48:28 EDT 2006"
irb(main):002:0> s.sub!( /EDT/, "GMT Standard Time" )
=> "Tue May 02 15:48:28 GMT Standard Time 2006"
irb(main):003:0> require 'parsedate'
=> true
irb(main):004:0> ParseDate.parsedate( s )
=> [nil, 5, 2, 15, 48, 28, "GMT", 2]

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