From: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T06:16:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18091] Re: Suggestion to change Time#to_s format to an official standard

FYI, Ruby 1.9 uses another format, "2008-08-03 06:16:10 +0900".

Dirkjan Bussink wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> When working with the JSON gem today, I found an annoyance. It currently 
> uses Time#to_s to create a JSON representation of a Time object. The 
> problem with this is that not every browser apparently handles this format.
> 
> Because of this, I started to dig into it and found that Ruby's format 
> of Time#to_s doesn't adhere to any official standard. It looks like UNIX 
> date output for some locales and also has a resemblance to RFC2822, but 
> the location of the year differs.
> 
> Is there any reason that Time#to_s doesn't adhere to any standard? It 
> would probably make the output easier to parse, for example for 
> browsers, but I think it would be better overall to use a standard here.
> 
> Another related topic is DateTime#to_s. Is the output difference on 
> purpose here? Or has it never been given any thought?
> 
> I hope some people here could shed some light on this.

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