From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T10:19:56+09:00
Subject: [ANN] MutableTime class

I've just finished my first general-purpose Ruby class, MutableTime.

You can read the RDocs for it at http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/ (and you 
can download it from the link at the bottom of the page for the 
MutableTime.rb file)

What is MutableTime? It arose out of my desire for a Date/Time class in 
Ruby that behaves like the Date object in JS. From the MutableTime docs:

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The MutableTime class behaves much like the builtin Time class, except:

  * almost any property can be changed, e.g.
       mmTime = MutableTime.new
       mmTime.year = 1973
       mmTime.month += 13

  * by default, month numbers start at 0 instead of 1
    � see monthsStartAtZero?

  * you can choose if the first day of the week is Sunday or Monday
    � see weekStartsOnMonday?

  * it has convenience methods named similar to JavaScript�s Date object
    � fullYear, month, date, hours, minutes, seconds

  * customFormat is slightly more powerful than Time#strftime

  * you can easily internationalize the month and day names
    (without editing the source code for the class)

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Please try it out and tell me what you think.

Also...what's the standard protocol for releasing new classes like this? 
Is there somewhere that I should upload the .rb file to? Somewhere other 
than here that I should announce it?

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