Bug#503591: Ruby and timezones

2008-11-06 Thread Philip Ross
Hi Roberto, 2008/10/31 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:32:13PM +, Philip Ross wrote: 2008/10/31 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Modify tzinfo to no longer embed the zone data and use the data from /usr/share/zoneinfo instead. - Requires

Bug#503591: Ruby and timezones

2008-11-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Hi Phil, On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:48:52PM +, Philip Ross wrote: I've attached a patch against TZInfo 0.3.11 that makes it use zoneinfo files instead of the built in timezone modules. By default it will try and locate a zoneinfo directory in /usr/share, /usr/share/lib and /etc. This

Bug#503591: Ruby and timezones

2008-11-06 Thread Philip Ross
Hi Roberto, 2008/11/6 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:48:52PM +, Philip Ross wrote: I've tested this by comparing the output for all timezones in tzdata v2008i against the output of zdump (see the /utils/zdumptestall.sh test script in SVN). Note that the

Bug#503591: Ruby and timezones

2008-10-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
All, First let me apologize for the length of this mail. However, there are a number of issues and I want to make sure I do not leave out anything. A while back I was engaged to package Active Record and Active Support into libactiverecord-ruby and libactivesupport-ruby for Debian and Ubuntu.