Refactor date filter to accept "Time types" other than Date, Time, and DateTime. For example, TzTime (http://github.com/rails/tztime/tree/master) is now supported.

lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb

@@ -126,16 +126,13 @@ module Liquid
         return input.to_s
       end
       
-      date = case input
+      date = input.is_a?(String) ? Time.parse(input) : input
-      when String
+      
-        Time.parse(input)
+      if date.respond_to?(:strftime)
-      when Date, Time, DateTime
+        date.strftime(format.to_s)
-        input
       else
-        return input
+        input
       end
-              
-      date.strftime(format.to_s)
     rescue => e 
       input
     end