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Tzinfo Timezone

This plugin installs a replacement for the TimeZone class. The replacement uses the TZInfo library (http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org) to do the time zone conversions, and thus takes into account daylight saving, for free.

It is not a 100%-compatible replacement, however. If you use TimeZone#unadjust anywhere, you’ll need to replace those calls, possibly with #local_to_utc. Also, the #adjust method is deprecated—it is better (and easier to read) if you use the #utc_to_local method instead.

Note that you will need to have the tzinfo library installed separately—it is not bundled with this plugin. You can easily install tzinfo as a gem:

gem install tzinfo

Copyright© 2006 Jamis Buck (jamis@37signals.com) released under the MIT license

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