From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T04:44:58+09:00
Subject: Re: parsedate doesn't work on Time.now.to_s

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:38 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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

Actually, I guess %z is just a synonym for %Z.  I misread the docs.

Anyway, the registry setting is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation.
The keys are StandardName and DaylightName.

HTH,

Dan 


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