devel/rubygem-timeliness 0.5.3 MidnightBSD

Date/time parser for Ruby with the following features:

• Extensible with custom formats and tokens.
• It's pretty fast. Up to 60% faster than Time/Date parse method.
• Control the parser strictness.
• Control behaviour of ambiguous date formats (US vs European e.g. mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy).
• I18n support (for months), if I18n gem loaded.
• Fewer WTFs than Time/Date parse method.
• Has no dependencies.

Extracted from the validates_timeliness gem, it has been rewritten cleaner and much faster. It's most suitable for when you need to control the parsing behaviour. It's faster than the Time/Date class parse methods, so it has general appeal.