From: Rover Rhubarb <rover.rhubarb@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T23:00:36+09:00
Subject: Re: TZ bug in Date and DateTime.strftime formatter?

The plot thickens.

Playing around with DateTime I thought I had it. DateTime.now.zone seems 
to give the right result. So I went back to my test cases. Look at this:

irb(main):008:0> dt_summer = DateTime.parse("1 August 2006 15:25")
=> #<DateTime: 706737353/288,0,2299161>
irb(main):009:0> dt_winter = DateTime.parse("1 November 2006 15:25")
=> #<DateTime: 706763849/288,0,2299161>
irb(main):010:0> dt_summer.zone
=> "Z"
irb(main):011:0> dt_winter.zone
=> "Z"
irb(main):012:0> dt = DateTime.now
=> #<DateTime: 212042973457327/86400000,1/24,2299161>
irb(main):013:0> dt.zone
=> "+0100"


So the zone for a parsed DateTime is 'Z' but for 'now' is correct at 
'+0100'

!#$%#$@  (As they used to say in the comic books, not realizing that 
they were coding in perl)

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