Colin Law wrote: > If you have the local time in a known time zone put it into a ruby > Time object (which, confusingly, includes a date) then you can use > dst? to determine whether it is in dst or not.
Cool. I hadn't had a chance to go looking for a method in Ruby to determine dst. I knew one exited in Java. It's good to know that .dst? is the ticket. Do you know whether Ruby maintains it's own timezones database or asks the host OS to look it up from the system's database? > Time object (which, confusingly, includes a date) Confusing to some maybe, but anyone who has ever done any serious date math knows that time is meaningless apart from date. After years in existence the Java folks still aren't completely happy with the standard Date and Time objects. In fact it's been redone several times, and still people often dump the standard classes in favor of Joda time. It might sound simple, but in reality it's far from it. http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
