[Feature #18033] Make Time.new parse time strings

`Time.new` now parses strings such as the result of `Time#inspect`
and restricted ISO-8601 formats.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/timev.rb b/timev.rb
index b549221315..1370a795a6 100644
--- a/timev.rb
+++ b/timev.rb
@@ -294,6 +294,13 @@ class Time
   #
   #   Time.new # => 2021-04-24 17:27:46.0512465 -0500
   #
+  # With one string argument that represents a time, returns a new
+  # \Time object based on the given argument, in the local timezone.
+  #
+  #   Time.new('2000-12-31 23:59:59.5')              # => 2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 -0600
+  #   Time.new('2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +0900')        # => 2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +0900
+  #   Time.new('2000-12-31 23:59:59.5', in: '+0900') # => 2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +0900
+  #
   # With one to six arguments, returns a new \Time object
   # based on the given arguments, in the local timezone.
   #
@@ -368,7 +375,7 @@ class Time
   #   Time.new(in: '-12:00')
   #   # => 2022-08-23 08:49:26.1941467 -1200
   #
-  def initialize(year = (now = true), mon = nil, mday = nil, hour = nil, min = nil, sec = nil, zone = nil, in: nil)
+  def initialize(year = (now = true), mon = (str = year; nil), mday = nil, hour = nil, min = nil, sec = nil, zone = nil, in: nil)
     if zone
       if Primitive.arg!(:in)
         raise ArgumentError, "timezone argument given as positional and keyword arguments"
@@ -381,6 +388,10 @@ class Time
       return Primitive.time_init_now(zone)
     end
 
-    Primitive.time_init_args(year, mon, mday, hour, min, sec, zone)
+    if str and Primitive.time_init_parse(str, zone)
+      return self
+    end
+
+    Primitive.time_init_args(year, mon, mday, hour, min, sec, nil, zone)
   end
 end