Time handling improved to ensure UTC always used

lib/couchrest/model/core_extensions/hash.rb

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+# This file contains various hacks for Rails compatibility.
+class Hash
+  # Hack so that CouchRest::Document, which descends from Hash,
+  # doesn't appear to Rails routing as a Hash of options
+  def self.===(other)
+    return false if self == Hash && other.is_a?(CouchRest::Document)
+    super
+  end
+end

lib/couchrest/model/core_extensions/time_parsing.rb

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+module CouchRest
+  module Model
+    module CoreExtensions
+      module TimeParsing
+
+        # Attemtps to parse a time string in ISO8601 format.
+        # If no match is found, the standard time parse will be used.
+        #
+        # Times, unless provided with a time zone, are assumed to be in 
+        # UTC.
+        #
+        def parse_iso8601(string)
+          if (string =~ /(\d{4})[\-|\/](\d{2})[\-|\/](\d{2})[T|\s](\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})(Z| ?([\+|\s|\-])?(\d{2}):?(\d{2}))?/)
+            # $1 = year
+            # $2 = month
+            # $3 = day
+            # $4 = hours
+            # $5 = minutes
+            # $6 = seconds
+            # $7 = UTC or Timezone
+            # $8 = time zone direction
+            # $9 = tz difference hours
+            # $10 = tz difference minutes
+
+            if (!$7.to_s.empty? && $7 != 'Z')
+              new($1.to_i, $2.to_i, $3.to_i, $4.to_i, $5.to_i, $6.to_i, "#{$8 == '-' ? '-' : '+'}#{$9}:#{$10}")
+            else
+              utc($1.to_i, $2.to_i, $3.to_i, $4.to_i, $5.to_i, $6.to_i)
+            end
+          else
+            parse(string)
+          end
+        end
+
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+Time.class_eval do
+  extend CouchRest::Model::CoreExtensions::TimeParsing
+end
+