From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T04:02:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseDate.parsedate() and Time.now()

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Bloom [mailto:kbloom@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:55 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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".

Should?  No.  It's up to your OS (and how it was configured when it was
installed).  I think we can fix this in Ruby itself ultimately.

Regards,

Dan


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