From: Dany <danyc18@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T04:42:19+09:00
Subject: Re: working around frozen hash

>
> Why don't you change the timezone in the sting beforehand ?
>
> Something like :
>
> >> date='Fri Jun 20 02:32:28 GST 2008'
>
> => "Fri Jun 20 02:32:28 GST 2008">> DateTime.parse(date.gsub(' GST ', ' UTC+04 ')).zone
>
> => "+04:00"
Because that is too easy and makes too much sense ;-)  I did not know
about UTC+04 format.  That is simple and easy to understand what is
going on.  I am not too concern with performance, at this point.
Thanks!

>
> Of course, if you need to pase many dates at many points, you can either
> redefine your own parsing routine (def DateTime.myparse(...)), or even
> patch the DateTime.parse function with via alias and a new definition...
>
My thoughts were going into that direction... but I burned myself
going down a similar path for another 'library' before.  I didn't
understand enough what I was 'patching' and my fix only cover some
specific cases, for me, but broke other....  I also don't like to mess
around with any code related to time and date.  I thought my idea of
just changing a 'constant' in the library, was the less 'intrusive'
way to not change any code 'logic'.

Thanks again
Dany