Module: FeedNormalizer::TimeFix

Included in:
Entry, Feed
Defined in:
lib/structures.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#reparse(obj) ⇒ Object

Reparse any Time instances, due to RSS::Parser’s redefinition of certain aspects of the Time class that creates unexpected behaviour when extending the Time class, as some common third party libraries do. See code.google.com/p/feed-normalizer/issues/detail?id=13.



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# File 'lib/structures.rb', line 125

def reparse(obj)
  @parsed ||= false

  if obj.is_a?(String)
    @parsed = true
    begin
      Time.at(obj) rescue Time.rfc2822(obj) rescue Time.parse(obj)
    rescue
      @parsed = false
      obj
    end
  else
    return obj if @parsed

    if obj.is_a?(Time)
      @parsed = true
      Time.at(obj) rescue obj
    end
  end
end