On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:48:47AM +0100, List Recv
wrote:> Is there any Ruby / Rails way to take a string and convert it to time?
> timefstr
>
> Specificallc,y I''d like to convert iso 8601 fromats to Ruby Time
objects
> or ActiveRecord time fields.
>> require ''time''
=> true>> Time.parse ''9:24''
=> Thu Jan 19 09:24:00 CST 2006>> Time.parse ''9:24 pm''
=> Thu Jan 19 21:24:00 CST 2006>> Time.parse ''9:24 am''
=> Thu Jan 19 09:24:00 CST 2006>> Time.parse ''9:24am''
=> Thu Jan 19 09:24:00 CST 2006>> Time.parse ''9:24pm''
=> Thu Jan 19 21:24:00 CST 2006>> Time.parse ''924''
=> Thu Jan 19 23:22:31 CST 2006
------------------------------------------------------------ Time::parse
Time::parse(date, now=Time.now) {|year| ...}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parses +date+ using ParseDate.parsedate and converts it to a Time
object.
If a block is given, the year described in +date+ is converted by
the block. For example:
Time.parse(...) {|y| y < 100 ? (y >= 69 ? y + 1900 : y + 2000) :
y}
If the upper components of the given time are broken or missing,
they are supplied with those of +now+. For the lower components,
the minimum values (1 or 0) are assumed if broken or missing. For
example:
# Suppose it is "Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 GMT 2001" now and
# your timezone is GMT:
Time.parse("16:30") #=> Thu Nov 29 16:30:00 GMT 2001
Time.parse("7/23") #=> Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 GMT 2001
Time.parse("Aug 31") #=> Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 GMT 2001
Since there are numerous conflicts among locally defined timezone
abbreviations all over the world, this method is not made to
understand all of them. For example, the abbreviation "CST" is
used
variously as:
-06:00 in America/Chicago,
-05:00 in America/Havana,
+08:00 in Asia/Harbin,
+09:30 in Australia/Darwin,
+10:30 in Australia/Adelaide,
etc.
Based on the fact, this method only understands the timezone
abbreviations described in RFC 822 and the system timezone, in the
order named. (i.e. a definition in RFC 822 overrides the system
timezone definition.) The system timezone is taken from
+Time.local(year, 1, 1).zone+ and +Time.local(year, 7, 1).zone+. If
the extracted timezone abbreviation does not match any of them, it
is ignored and the given time is regarded as a local time.
ArgumentError is raised if ParseDate cannot extract information
from +date+ or Time class cannot represent specified date.
This method can be used as fail-safe for other parsing methods as:
Time.rfc2822(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
Time.httpdate(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
Time.xmlschema(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
A failure for Time.parse should be checked, though.
marcel
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Marcel Molina Jr. <marcel@vernix.org>