xmlschema(date)
  public
  
    
    
Parses date as dateTime defined by XML Schema and converts it to a Time object.  The format is restricted version of the
format defined by ISO 8601.
ArgumentError is raised if date
is not compliant with the format or Time class
cannot represent specified date.
See #xmlschema for more information on
this format.
time library should be required to use this method as follows.
require 'time'
   
  
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    def xmlschema(date)
      if /\A\s*
          (-?\d+)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)
          T
          (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)
          (\.\d+)?
          (Z|[+-]\d\d:\d\d)?
          \s*\z/x =~ date
        year = $1.to_i
        mon = $2.to_i
        day = $3.to_i
        hour = $4.to_i
        min = $5.to_i
        sec = $6.to_i
        usec = 0
        if $7
          usec = Rational($7) * 1000000
        end
        if $8
          zone = $8
          year, mon, day, hour, min, sec =
            apply_offset(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, zone_offset(zone))
          self.utc(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec)
        else
          self.local(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec)
        end
      else
        raise ArgumentError.new("invalid date: #{date.inspect}")
      end
    end