From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-16T00:06:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseDate.parsedate() and Time.now()

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:12 AM
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: Re: ParseDate.parsedate() and Time.now()
>>
>>
>> On 8/15/06, Patrick Spence <patrick@pkspence.com> wrote:
>>> As for the issue of returning "Central" vs "CST" or "CDT", I'm not
>>> overly concerned with that at this time. No doubt, that will change.
>>
>> I'm not sure it'll change. You're on Windows, and Windows is
>> stupid this way, preferring to spell out "Central Daylight
>> Time" instead of "CDT"; I have yet to figure out how to get
>> the output from a Windows format string to be abbreviated or
>> better yet to return a +/- offset.
>
> Modify your registry:
>
> http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=123&thread=158847
>
> Or did you mean something else?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

why aren't you guys just using a decent date format?

   require 'time'

   now = Time.now

   iso8601 = now.iso8601(2)

   puts iso8601

   now2 = Time.parse(iso8601)

   iso86012 = now2.iso8601(2)



my rules for dealing with dates are

   - do everything in gmt

   - if, and only if, that cannot be done do all calculations/formatting using
     iso8601.  it sorts as strings and is parseable by just about any decent
     application including databases and does not require tzinfo.

regards.

-a
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