[ruby-core:31062] [Backport #3541] strftime formatting error on Mac platform

Backport #3541: strftime formatting error on Mac platform
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3541

Author: Evan Dorn
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Category: lib

The strftime command supports the %-m and %-d options for non-zero-padded month and non-zero-padded-day.  

However, on a mac they are only supported on DateTime and Date, but not on Time.   This causes problems in, for example, Rails which extends Time to TimeWithZone.

Quick demo of the problem:

[18:26:49 ~]$ irb
>> DateTime.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "7 5"
>> Time.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "-m -d"
>> exit
[18:27:04 ~]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]


The flaw appears to be mac-only.   strftime works as expected on Debian Linux:

[18:13] evan@ci ~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0>  Time.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "7 5"
irb(main):002:0> exit
[18:15] evan@ci ~ $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux]




This is reproduceable in 1.8.7-p299:

[18:27:07 ~]$ rvm use 1.8.7-p299

info: Using ruby 1.8.7 p299
[18:28:01 ~]$ irb
ruby-1.8.7-p299 > Time.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
 => "-m -d" 
ruby-1.8.7-p299 > exit
[18:28:13 ~]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i686-darwin10.4.0]

It is *not* reproduceable in 1.9.1.


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