From 84fddba2e1ccfddb67c5e454b4a75ce8dcef883b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kelley Reynolds <kelley@insidesystems.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:01:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove regex for downcase and is_a?(String)

---
 lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index d817539..550908f 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -306,8 +306,10 @@ module Liquid
     def to_date(obj)
       return obj if obj.respond_to?(:strftime)
 
+      obj = obj.downcase if obj.is_a?(String)
+
       case obj
-      when /\A(?:now|today)\z/i
+      when 'now'.freeze, 'today'.freeze
         Time.now
       when /\A\d+\z/, Integer
         Time.at(obj.to_i)