From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2002-10-17T18:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting String to Time would be nice

Hi.

> From: Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:08 PM

> > > Time.scanf("10/17/02 18:46:18", "%x %X")  =>  Time.now, 
> more or less
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > I know we have ParseDate, but ...
> >
> > +1 to ParseDate.
> >
> > "01/02/01 12:34:56" should be parsed according to
> > locale.  It's overkill for Ruby to decide a single
> > dateTime format, I think.
> 
> "%x %X" *is* according to locale.

My apologies.  I completely missed the point...  You need
strptime implementation in Ruby, right?  IIRC, Funaba-san
who developed current version of parsedate.rb were
talking about such a plan.  I don't know the current
status...

Regards,
// NaHi