From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2012-06-28T09:29:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:45922] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT'

2012/6/27 stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer) <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
>
> Issue #6656 has been reported by stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer).

> Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT',
> as in Time#to_s and Time#zone. This is also the behaviour of Ruby 1.9.3.
>
>  irb(main):001:0> Time.utc(2012, 6, 27).to_s
>  => "Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012"
>  irb(main):002:0> Time.utc(2012, 6, 27).zone
>  => "UTC"
>  irb(main):003:0> Time.utc(2012, 6, 27).strftime('%Z')
>  => "GMT"

Ruby 1.8 uses strftime() in libc.

Ruby 1.9 uses own strftime() which %Z should produce UTC.

  % ruby-1.8.7p357 -ve 'p Time.utc(2012, 6, 27).strftime("%Z")'
  ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [x86_64-linux]
  "GMT"
  % ruby-1.9.3p194 -ve 'p Time.utc(2012, 6, 27).strftime("%Z")'
  ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
  "UTC"

Do you really sure that it returns "GMT" with Ruby 1.9.3?
-- 
Tanaka Akira