tzinfo 0.1.0

v0.1.0

on Ruby Gems

• period_for_local and local_to_utc now allow resolution of ambiguous times (e.g. when switching from daylight savings to standard time). The behaviour of these methods when faced with an ambiguous local time has now changed. If you are using these methods you should check the documentation. Thanks to Cliff Matthews for suggesting this change.
• Added require 'date' to timezone.rb (date isn't loaded by default in all environments).
• Use rake to build packages and documentation.
• License file is now included in gem distribution.
• Dates in definitions stored as Astronomical Julian Day numbers rather than as civil dates (improves performance creating DateTime instances).
• Added options to TZDataParser to allow generation of specific zones and countries.
• Moved TimezonePeriod class to timezone_period.rb.
• New TimezonePeriodList class to store TimezonePeriod instances for a timezone and perform searches for periods.
• Time zones are now defined using blocks. TimezonePeriod instances are only instantiated when they are needed. Thanks to Jamis Buck for the suggestion.
• Add options to TZDataParser to allow exclusion of specific zones and countries.
• Exclude the Riyadh Solar Time zones. The rules are only for 1987 to 1989 and take a long time to generate and process. Riyadh Solar Time is no longer observed.
• The last TimezonePeriod for each Timezone is now written out with an unbounded rather than arbitrary end time.
• Construct the Rational offset in TimezonePeriod once when the TimezonePeriod is constructed rather than each time it is needed.
• Timezone and Country now keep a cache of loaded instances to avoid running require which can be slow on some platforms.
• Updated to tzdata version 2005n.

TZInfo v0.1.0 on RubyGems.org