Dealing with TimeZones

[Thomas A. Moulton]

What is the easies to use package for dealing with time zones and DST
changes?

I just need to be able to track when to start various activities bases
on local times.

The problem is I have to trace a few time zones.

It looks like TZFile will do the job, but I am not sure how stable it is.
(It uses the zone files on the local system)

http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-tzfile/

Or maybe there are other packages I have over looked.

I did look at TZinfo, but is seems to be static code not live data.

Any suggestions?

tom

 

[Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)]

Hi Thomas,

I would take a look at TZInfo again. Since it's used by rails, it
should be pretty reliable.
But I didn't really get the static code vs live data reflection. The
tables need to be updated once in a while, but that is fixed by
upgrading the gem. Is this what you mean ?

http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/doc/

Cheers,
zimbatm

 

[Thomas A. Moulton]

Yes, but to get the update my program would need to re-load, not to mention I would have to manually, I would often forget, which defeats the purpose

Tom

 

[Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)]

Yes, but to get the update my program would need to re-load, not to mention I would have to manually, I would often forget, which defeats the purpose

Yeah I know what you mean. It's not a problem for most people because
they push code changes to their product anyways. I'm afraid not much
people need a fire and forget solution like you do.

Sorry I couldn't help.