From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-28T10:45:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: Add Time#atZone

Hi,

In message "RCR: Add Time#atZone"
    on 02/09/28, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> writes:

|Analogous to Time#gmtime, but sets the time to zone z, where z is
|specified as GMT +/- some number of hours (or possibly using the
|standard "named" timezones). e.g.
|t = Time.now.atZone(+3) or t = Time.now.atZone("CST")

There's no portable way to handle timezone except for GMT (UTC) and
localtime.  For this RCR, we have to implement whole time handling
routines by ourselves.  To tell the truth, I don't want to.

							matz.