Geoff Buesing

The us_zones method is potentially helpful to devs all over the world, not just US-based devs.

Proof in point: the us_zones method was first added to the fram...

Here's an example of how to float a custom grouping of zones to the top of time_zone_select:

# config/initializers/time_zones.rb:
MY_ZONES = [ TimeZone['Alas...

To be clear, I'm not advocating leaving out one world region. I'm advocating that we only add additional TimeZone convenience methods to core if we can prove t...

1. If we're to add more convenience methods for grouping time zones, we need to justify each one we add: it should address a common, real-world application nee...

It's probably also worth exploring, is the current method of matching against a regex really all that slow? Maybe a quick benchmark would help justify your eff...

If we're going to preload us_zones, we need to make it thread-safe -- see TimeZone.all for an example of how to do this, if you're interested in updating this ...

There's already a ticket for this:

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/p...

This is a good catch -- we should make the output of #to_json consistent across Time, DateTime, and TimeWithZone instances.

The outstanding question is, is th...

patch applied in http://github.com/rails/rails/co...

@Scott: thanks for the updated patch; I'll try to pull this in in the next couple of days.

@Dan: String#to_time has ignored the time zone since it was first a...