improve DateTime parsing a UTC timezone offset

sdk/lib/core/date_time.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of dart.core;
 
 /**
  * An instant in time, such as July 20, 1969, 8:18pm PST.
  *
  * Create a DateTime object by using one of the constructors
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  *
  * Day and month values begin at 1, and the week starts on Monday.
  * That is, the constants [JANUARY] and [MONDAY] are both 1.
  *
  * ## Working with UTC and local time
  *
  * A DateTime object is in the local time zone
  * unless explicitly created in the UTC time zone.
  *
  *     DateTime dDay = new DateTime.utc(1944, 6, 6);
- *    
+ *
  * Use [isUtc] to determine whether a DateTime object is based in UTC.
  * Use the methods [toLocal] and [toUtc]
  * to get the equivalent date/time value specified in the other time zone.
  * Use [timeZoneName] to get an abbreviated name of the time zone
  * for the DateTime object.
  * To find the difference
  * between UTC and the time zone of a DateTime object
  * call [timeZoneOffset].
  *
  * ## Comparing DateTime objects
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    *
    * The function parses a subset of ISO 8601. Examples of accepted strings:
    *
    * * `"2012-02-27 13:27:00"`
    * * `"2012-02-27 13:27:00.123456z"`
    * * `"20120227 13:27:00"`
    * * `"20120227T132700"`
    * * `"20120227"`
    * * `"+20120227"`
    * * `"2012-02-27T14Z"`
+   * * `"2012-02-27T14+00:00"`
    * * `"-123450101 00:00:00 Z"`: in the year -12345.
    */
   // TODO(floitsch): specify grammar.
   static DateTime parse(String formattedString) {
     final RegExp re = new RegExp(
         r'^([+-]?\d?\d\d\d\d)-?(\d\d)-?(\d\d)'  // The day part.
-        r'(?:[ T](\d\d)(?::?(\d\d)(?::?(\d\d)(.\d{1,6})?)?)? ?([zZ])?)?$');
+        r'(?:[ T](\d\d)(?::?(\d\d)(?::?(\d\d)(.\d{1,6})?)?)? ?([zZ]|(\+00(:?00)?)?))?$');

[floitsch, 2013/10/28 23:01:24]

80 chars.
The "(\+00" should be a non-capturing ("(:?").

     Match match = re.firstMatch(formattedString);
     if (match != null) {
       int parseIntOrZero(String matched) {
         if (matched == null) return 0;
         return int.parse(matched);
       }
 
       double parseDoubleOrZero(String matched) {
         if (matched == null) return 0.0;
         return double.parse(matched);
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    * In accordance with ISO 8601
    * a week starts with Monday, which has the value 1.
    *
    *     DateTime moonLanding = DateTime.parse("1969-07-20 20:18:00");
    *     assert(moonLanding.weekday == 7);
    *     assert(moonLanding.weekday == DateTime.SUNDAY);
    *
    */
   external int get weekday;
 }