From: Rover Rhubarb <rover.rhubarb@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T22:44:36+09:00
Subject: Re: TZ bug in Date and DateTime.strftime formatter?

> Would this do the trick:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/tzinfo/

This is a handy little library, but it doesn't have a way of getting the 
current timezone for the location where it's run.
Time does this.

> And also: "The Date class does not support time zone offsets, in
> that there is no way to create a Date object with a time zone."

This seems to be the key. It's just not supported. That makes no sense 
really. With support in Time, and the ability to format a DateTime to 
show the timezone, there's no excuse for Ruby not givign the correct 
value of +0100.

With all those libraries out there I'm surprised something this basic 
isn't available.

I guess I'll just parse for the Daylight part and make my own offset - 
but it's a shame since my xml-tv code would otherwise be general - now 
it's going to be specific to my timezone

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