From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T03:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseDate.parsedate() and Time.now()

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:10:58 +0900, Patrick Spence wrote:

> irb(main):029:0> timeNow = Time.now().to_s()
> => "Fri Aug 11 11:03:36 Central Daylight Time 2006"
> 
> irb(main):030:0> ParseDate.parsedate(timeNow)
> => [nil, 8, 11, 11, 3, 36, "Central", 5]
> 
> Seems to me that it should return this:
> => [2006, 8, 11, 11, 3, 36, "Central", 5]
> 
> Or is it just me?

It's you. Specifically, something's wrong with your locale, because
"Central Daylight Time" should actually be replaced with the abbreviation
"CDT".

irb(main):001:0> timeNow = Time.now().to_s()
=> "Fri Aug 11 13:49:07 CDT 2006"
irb(main):002:0> ParseDate.parsedate(timeNow)
=> [2006, 8, 11, 13, 49, 7, "CDT", 5]


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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/