Hello,
I wanted to ask what are the general feelings about “dateless” Time
values in Ruby.
A few times I’ve had to struggle with the default Time class, and have
felt that Ruby lacked a data structure to represent simple time values
that are not bound to a specific date.
Think of expressions like “everyday at 18:00”, or “the restaurant always
opens at 11:00 and closes at 23:00”. In these situations there is no
need to think about distance from epoch, timezones, or accommodate for
the DST offset.
In fact, Python’s “datetime.time” class covers this exact use case:
I’ve written a tiny gem for this purpose, with a very simple
implementation:
https://rubygems.org/gems/dateless_time
I was wondering if other people would find this useful, and if it could
be a candidate for the Standard Library.