From 213fac6f49532e7ee08348542e80465088b9bf5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoff Buesing <gbuesing@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:49:53 +0000
Subject: TimeZone#now returns an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@8710 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 activesupport/CHANGELOG                              |  2 ++
 activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb | 17 +++++++++++------
 activesupport/test/time_zone_test.rb                 |  5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'activesupport')

diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index 633b9cbb89..5b9d72d1dc 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* TimeZone#now returns an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone [Geoff Buesing]
+
 * Time #in_current_time_zone and #change_time_zone_to_current return self when Time.zone is nil [Geoff Buesing]
 
 * Remove unneeded #to_datetime_default_s alias for DateTime#to_s, given that we inherit a #to_default_s from Date that does exactly the same thing [Geoff Buesing]
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
index 689ba5a6e5..7adc8133c6 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
@@ -177,22 +177,27 @@ class TimeZone
   begin # the following methods depend on the tzinfo gem
     require_library_or_gem "tzinfo" unless Object.const_defined?(:TZInfo)
     
-    # Compute and return the current time, in the time zone represented by
-    # +self+.
+    # Returns an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instance representing the current time
+    # in the time zone represented by +self+. Example:
+    #
+    #   Time.zone = 'Hawaii'  # => "Hawaii"
+    #   Time.zone.now         # => Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:24:27 HST -10:00
     def now
-      tzinfo.now
+      tzinfo.now.change_time_zone(self)
     end
 
     # Return the current date in this time zone.
     def today
-      now.to_date
+      tzinfo.now.to_date
     end
 
-    # Adjust the given time to the time zone represented by +self+.
+    # Adjust the given time to the simultaneous time in the time zone represented by +self+. Returns a 
+    # Time.utc() instance -- if you want an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instance, use Time#in_time_zone() instead.
     def utc_to_local(time)
       tzinfo.utc_to_local(time)
     end
-
+    
+    # Adjust the given time to the simultaneous time in UTC. Returns a Time.utc() instance.
     def local_to_utc(time, dst=true)
       tzinfo.local_to_utc(time, dst)
     end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/time_zone_test.rb b/activesupport/test/time_zone_test.rb
index 8dea36f20e..72f25a1683 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/time_zone_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/time_zone_test.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ class TimeZoneTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     uses_mocha 'TestTimeZoneNowAndToday' do
       def test_now
         TZInfo::DataTimezone.any_instance.stubs(:now).returns(Time.utc(2000))
-        assert_equal Time.utc(2000), TimeZone['Eastern Time (US & Canada)'].now
+        zone = TimeZone['Eastern Time (US & Canada)']
+        assert_instance_of ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone, zone.now
+        assert_equal Time.utc(2000), zone.now.time
+        assert_equal zone, zone.now.time_zone
       end
     
       def test_today
-- 
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