Re: working around frozen hash


Why don't you change the timezone in the sting beforehand ?

Something like :

date='Fri Jun 20 02:32:28 GST 2008'

=> "Fri Jun 20 02:32:28 GST 2008">> DateTime.parse(date.gsub(' GST ', ' UTC+04 ')).zone

=> "+04:00"
Because that is too easy and makes too much sense ;-) I did not know
about UTC+04 format. That is simple and easy to understand what is
going on. I am not too concern with performance, at this point.
Thanks!


Of course, if you need to pase many dates at many points, you can either
redefine your own parsing routine (def DateTime.myparse(...)), or even
patch the DateTime.parse function with via alias and a new definition...

My thoughts were going into that direction... but I burned myself
going down a similar path for another 'library' before. I didn't
understand enough what I was 'patching' and my fix only cover some
specific cases, for me, but broke other.... I also don't like to mess
around with any code related to time and date. I thought my idea of
just changing a 'constant' in the library, was the less 'intrusive'
way to not change any code 'logic'.

Thanks again
Dany
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