From 24bf446b0e789865370bfe248c2cfe44602afd61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zack Chandler <zackchandler@depixelate.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:16:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor date filter to accept "Time types" other than Date,
 Time, and DateTime.  For example, TzTime
 (http://github.com/rails/tztime/tree/master) is now supported.

---
 lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index e1d4f6c..99a7078 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -126,16 +126,13 @@ module Liquid
         return input.to_s
       end
       
-      date = case input
-      when String
-        Time.parse(input)
-      when Date, Time, DateTime
-        input
+      date = input.is_a?(String) ? Time.parse(input) : input
+      
+      if date.respond_to?(:strftime)
+        date.strftime(format.to_s)
       else
-        return input
+        input
       end
-              
-      date.strftime(format.to_s)
     rescue => e 
       input
     end