From: Michael H Buselli <busellim@...>
Date: 2002-02-21T07:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Time class and localization

moumar said:

> I'm writing ruby programs that must display date and i was surprised to not
> find a way to display Time instance in my locale. Is there a patch to make 
> this ( with a call to the C setlocale() function)?

Time.new.localtime doesn't do what you expected for displaying the time
in your locale?  As for setting your locale, just modify ENV['TZ'].

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