fails to parse "03/10/2013 12:00 AM"

[anazar]

Chronic.parse("03/10/2013 12:00 AM")

Returns nil

[davispuh]

I can't reproduce, it works fine for me. Most likly something with your timezone/environment. Could you provide more details (timezone, ruby, platform)? And try with newest Chronic 0.10.2

[anazar]

chronic (0.10.2)
Ruby 2.0.0
Rails 4.0.0

It's a timezone thing.

We have our timezone set as follows:

config.time_zone = 'Pacific Time (US & Canada)'

When that is removed it works fine.

[davispuh]

Seems same as #177 and #179 caused by DST change on that day. Currently Chronic doesn't have any real support for daylight time changes. Also related bugs: #222 #147

[direction]

Has there been any updates on this? I'm getting the following errors (all to do with DST starting)

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09")
=> Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:00:00 EDT -04:00 # Why is this at one in the afternoon?

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09 12:00 AM")
=> nil

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09 12:59 AM")
=> nil

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09 1:00 AM")
=> Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 EST -05:00 # Why is this midnight?

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09 2 AM")
=> Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:00:00 EST -05:00 # This has moved back by one hour

Chronic.parse("2014-03-09 12:00 PM")
=> Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:00:00 EDT -04:00 # Why is this midnight of the next day?

If I try any other times on that day after 2 AM that is not between noon and 1pm, the parsing is correct.

[davispuh]

There haven't been any updates regarding this issue, so it's not fixed.

[c-lliope]

I'm getting the same thing:

Chronic.parse "3/8/2014 11:59:59 PM"
=> 2014-03-08 23:59:59 -0500
Chronic.parse "3/9/2014 12:00:00 AM"
=> nil
Chronic.parse "3/9/2014 12:59:59 AM"
=> nil
Chronic.parse "3/9/2014 1:00:00 AM"
=> 2014-03-09 00:00:00 -0500

Time.zone.to_s
=> "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"

Ruby version:
ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-11-23 trunk 43807) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

[maricris-sn]

I'm also experiencing something similar:

Chronic.parse("3 Nov 2013 10 AM")
=> 2013-11-03 10:00:00 -0500
Chronic.parse("3 Nov 2013 11 AM")
=> nil
Time.zone.to_s
"(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"

Ruby version:
ruby 1.9.3p484 (2013-11-22 revision 43786) [x86_64-linux]
Rails version:
3.0.19