From: "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@...>
Date: 2011-01-16T22:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Dealing with TimeZones

Hi Thomas,

I would take a look at TZInfo again. Since it's used by rails, it
should be pretty reliable.
But I didn't really get the static code vs live data reflection. The
tables need to be updated once in a while, but that is fixed by
upgrading the gem. Is this what you mean ?

http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/doc/

Cheers,
  zimbatm

2011/1/15 Thomas A. Moulton <tom@moulton.us>:
> What is the easies to use package for dealing with time zones and DST
> changes?
>
> I just need to be able to track when to start various activities bases on
> local times.
>
> The problem is I have to trace a few time zones.
>
> It looks like TZFile will do the job, but I am not sure how stable it is.
> (It uses the zone files on the local system)
>
> http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-tzfile/
>
> Or maybe there are other packages I have over looked.
>
> I did look at TZinfo, but is seems to be static code not live data.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> tom
>
>