Module LiveJournal
In: lib/livejournal/database.rb
lib/livejournal/basic.rb
lib/livejournal/comment.rb
lib/livejournal/comments-xml.rb
lib/livejournal/entry.rb
lib/livejournal/friends.rb
lib/livejournal/login.rb
lib/livejournal/logjam.rb
lib/livejournal/request.rb
lib/livejournal/sync.rb

Methods

coerce_gmt  

Classes and Modules

Module LiveJournal::LogJam
Module LiveJournal::Request
Module LiveJournal::Sync
Class LiveJournal::Comment
Class LiveJournal::Database
Class LiveJournal::Entry
Class LiveJournal::Friend
Class LiveJournal::Server
Class LiveJournal::User

Constants

DEFAULT_SERVER = Server.new("LiveJournal.com", "http://www.livejournal.com")
HAVE_XML_PARSER = true
HAVE_XML_PARSER = false

Public Class methods

coerce_gmt(time)

LiveJournal times have no time zone, as they are for display only: "I wrote this post at midnight". However, it’s convenient to represent times with a Ruby time object. But when time zones get involved, everything gets confused; we’d like to store a Unix time in the database and those only make sense as GMT. To reduce confusion, then, we imagine all LiveJournal times are in GMT. This function takes a time in any time zone and just switches the timezone to GMT. That is, coerce_gmt of 11:12pm PST is 11:12 pm GMT. The entry time-setting functions require this GMT part to verify you’re thinking carefully about time when you use Entry#time. If I want an entry that has a time that corresponds to what I feel is "now", I’d use 

 LiveJournal::coerce_gmt Time.now

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