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require 'date'
require 'active_support/inflector/methods'
require 'active_support/core_ext/date/zones'

class Date
  DATE_FORMATS = {
    :short        => '%e %b',
    :long         => '%B %e, %Y',
    :db           => '%Y-%m-%d',
    :number       => '%Y%m%d',
    :long_ordinal => lambda { |date|
      day_format = ActiveSupport::Inflector.ordinalize(date.day)
      date.strftime("%B #{day_format}, %Y") # => "April 25th, 2007"
    },
    :rfc822       => '%e %b %Y',
    :iso8601      => lambda { |date| date.iso8601 }
  }

  # Ruby 1.9 has Date#to_time which converts to localtime only.
  remove_method :to_time

  # Ruby 1.9 has Date#xmlschema which converts to a string without the time component.
  remove_method :xmlschema

  # Convert to a formatted string. See DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats.
  #
  # This method is aliased to <tt>to_s</tt>.
  #
  #   date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)       # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007
  #
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:db)            # => "2007-11-10"
  #   date.to_s(:db)                      # => "2007-11-10"
  #
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:short)         # => "10 Nov"
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:long)          # => "November 10, 2007"
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal)  # => "November 10th, 2007"
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:rfc822)        # => "10 Nov 2007"
  #   date.to_formatted_s(:iso8601)       # => "2007-11-10"
  #
  # == Adding your own date formats to to_formatted_s
  # You can add your own formats to the Date::DATE_FORMATS hash.
  # Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string
  # or Proc instance that takes a date argument as the value.
  #
  #   # config/initializers/date_formats.rb
  #   Date::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = '%B %Y'
  #   Date::DATE_FORMATS[:short_ordinal] = ->(date) { date.strftime("%B #{date.day.ordinalize}") }
  def to_formatted_s(format = :default)
    if formatter = DATE_FORMATS[format]
      if formatter.respond_to?(:call)
        formatter.call(self).to_s
      else
        strftime(formatter)
      end
    else
      to_default_s
    end
  end
  alias_method :to_default_s, :to_s
  alias_method :to_s, :to_formatted_s

  # Overrides the default inspect method with a human readable one, e.g., "Mon, 21 Feb 2005"
  def readable_inspect
    strftime('%a, %d %b %Y')
  end
  alias_method :default_inspect, :inspect
  alias_method :inspect, :readable_inspect

  # Converts a Date instance to a Time, where the time is set to the beginning of the day.
  # The timezone can be either :local or :utc (default :local).
  #
  #   date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)  # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007
  #
  #   date.to_time                   # => Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 0800 2007
  #   date.to_time(:local)           # => Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 0800 2007
  #
  #   date.to_time(:utc)             # => Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 UTC 2007
  def to_time(form = :local)
    ::Time.send(form, year, month, day)
  end

  def xmlschema
    in_time_zone.xmlschema
  end
end