From c42eb7fc3a9030b23f90db77437cd41f2b4c7701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pat Hawks <pat@pathawks.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 14:39:08 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Take advantage of Liquid::Utils.to_date

---
 lib/jekyll/filters.rb | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
index f537e847..ca47e06a 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
@@ -345,16 +345,9 @@ module Jekyll
 
     private
     def time(input)
-      case input
-      when Time
-        input.clone
-      when Date
-        input.to_time
-      when String
-        Time.parse(input) rescue Time.at(input.to_i)
-      when Numeric
-        Time.at(input)
-      else
+      begin
+        Liquid::Utils.to_date(input).to_time
+      rescue NoMethodError
         raise Errors::InvalidDateError,
           "Invalid Date: '#{input.inspect}' is not a valid datetime."
       end.localtime