Yukihiro Matsumoto
1/20/2005 2:36:00 AM
Hi,
In message "Re: Time.strftime and UTC"
on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:45:13 +0900, "Michael C. Libby" <mcl@andsoforth.com> writes:
|mcl@saluki:~$ ruby -e 'puts Time.new.utc.strftime("%H:%M %Z")'
|04:31 GMT
|
|If I say to convert to UTC, shouldn't I get %Z = "UTC"?
|
|It also contradicts page 649 of Pickaxe2 which says that 1.8+
|would have UTC instead of GMT anyway.
Unlike inspect or to_s, strftime honors underlying strftime(3)
function on the platform. This means strftime(3) function on your
platform returns GMT for %Z for time on UTC zone. I'm not sure this
situation could be fixed, since it requires either
* abandon strftime(3) and re-implement the whole time formatting
function.
* or seek for the format string and replace %Z to UTC if a time is
in the UTC zone.
which cost us much anyway.
matz.