From: sto.mar@...
Date: 2012-06-29T01:32:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:45941] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT'

Am 28.06.2012 15:08, schrieb Tanaka Akira:
> However Ruby 1.8's %Z behavior is intended behavior because
> Ruby 1.8 uses just a strftime() in libc.
> So, this issue is a new feature request.

I disagree.

A programmer should not have to worry about the implementation of
the method. Furthermore, in the documentation #strftime is not marked
as a mere wrapper for the C library's strftime().

The different behavior of strftime('%Z') and #zone / #to_s
is unexpected and seems even contradictory to the statement
in the #zone documentation, that "UTC" is used since 1.8.

Regards,
Marcus


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