From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T04:04:50+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime.parse error on win32 (long timezone names)

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> Subject: DateTime.parse error on win32 (long timezone names)
> 
> 
> NOTE: this is a cross-post from comp.lang.ruby, because I don't think 
> anyone read that message, which I posted about two months ago.
> 
> The date parsing code in the Ruby stdlib (date/format.rb) 
> does not parse 
> strings with long timezones, e.g. "Eastern Daylight Time", as 
> opposed to 
> the abbreviated "EDT".  On win32, Time#to_s produces a string 
> with the 
> long timezone name.  So, Time.parse(Time.now.to_s) assumes 
> the current 
> year, and DateTime.parse(Time.now.to_s) throws an error.
> 
> This is a critical issue for me because it is causing crashes in a 
> production Rails application during XML serialization in 
> ActionWebService.

This is a well known bug.  Please see
http://djberg96.livejournal.com/75544.html for the easiest way to "fix"
this (and other details).

Regards,

Dan


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