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On 7/19/06, Harold Hausman <hhausman / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect that Time.parse is just not understanding the "Malay
> Peninsula Standard Time" time zone. Or maybe theres something I'm just
> not understanding?
>
> It looks like Time.parse is missing the year at the end of the string,
> observe:
>
> irb(main):001:0> Time.new
> => Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula Standard Time 2006
>
> irb(main):002:0> Time.parse "Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula
> Standard Time 2006"
> => Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula Standard Time 2006
>
> irb(main):003:0> Time.parse "Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula
> Standard Time 2007"
> => Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula Standard Time 2006
>
> irb(main):004:0> Time.parse "Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula
> Standard Time 2012"
> => Wed Jul 19 19:47:57 Malay Peninsula Standard Time 2006
>
> Does this make me the first Ruby user in Singapore? Do I get a prize?
>
> hehe,
> -Harold
>
> You seem a victim of the Ruby Quiz, who patched negative sleep?


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