Support multiple time zones

[taropaa]

Currently the script only supports Zulu time. It would be nice if other time-zones would also be supported such as per the ISO 8601 specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones

[rmm5t]

Currently the script only supports Zulu time

Not true.

It would be nice if other time-zones would also be supported

They are. Try 2018-01-29T21:54:34-07:00

such as per the ISO 8601 specifications

Granted, this parser isn't complete, but there's little benefit to expanding it much more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones

Are you just asking for the special military time time zone designator characters?

[taropaa]

Hi Ryan, thank you for your quick reply.
You are correct, I was able to get the ISO 8601 spec to work eventually. and yes I am referring to military time.
In your example you are using <time class="timeago" datetime="2011-12-17T09:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</time>. I am assuming Z stands for Zulu. Looking at the link, I needed Romeo time, and tried <time class="timeago" datetime="2011-12-17T09:24:17R">December 17, 2011</time> which no longer works.
I was able to get it to work using
<time class="timeago" datetime="2011-12-17T09:24:17-5:00">December 17, 2011</time>

[rmm5t]

Cool. 😎

Yes, the Z stands for Zulu, but the only reason this library parses it (and not the other military designators, which are quite rare, btw) is because that particular time zone designator (`Z') is special in that many languages will use this short-cut syntax when outputting ISO8601 timestamps in UTC.

For example, in Ruby:

>> Time.now.iso8601
=> "2018-01-30T08:00:27-07:00"
>> Time.now.utc.iso8601
=> "2018-01-30T15:00:31Z"