From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T04:37:56+09:00
Subject: Re: parsedate doesn't work on Time.now.to_s

On 5/3/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:> Take a look at time_to_s in time.c and you'll see this line:>> len = strftime(buf, 128, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y", &tobj->tm);>> The 'issue' is %Z.  Reading the man page on Solaris is merely says "time> zone name or abbreviation".  How it determines which to use, I'm not> sure.  On Windows it's apparently controlled by a registry setting> somewhere (Windows also supports %z).  So, my guess is most *nix systems> default to the abbreviation, while Windows defaults to the long name.>> I don't think we need to fix time_to_s, however.  We need to fix> ParseDate.
>> Time.now.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")=> "Wed May 03 15:37:18 Eastern Daylight Time 2006"
Note the use of "%z" as opposed to "%Z". Windows is hosed.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca