From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...>
Date: 2013-10-07T17:08:19-05:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57715] Re: [PATCH 1/2] time: fix strptime '%s'

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
> 2013/10/8 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
>
>> It doesn't really say '%s' is UTC, but that it's the seconds since the
>> Epoch (which is UTC).
>
> The Epoch is usually described in UTC but it doesn't mean it is UTC.
>
> The Epoch can be described as 1970-01-001 00:00:00 UTC,
> 1970-01-01 09:00:00 +0900 and others.
>
> %s format itself doesn't contain the information for offset from UTC.
>
> So I think it is not good idea to change the behavior
> (and possibly breaks compatibility) for Time.strptime('0', '%s') returns
> UTC Time object instead of local time Time object.

I don't feel strongly either way.

How about this?

--- a/lib/time.rb
+++ b/lib/time.rb
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ class Time
       d = Date._strptime(date, format)
       raise ArgumentError, "invalid strptime format - `#{format}'" unless d
       if seconds = d[:seconds]
-        Time.at(seconds)
+        Time.at(seconds).localtime(d[:offset])
       else
         year = d[:year]
         year = yield(year) if year && block_given?

'%s' remains the same, but '%s %z' is fixed:

Time.strptime('0', '%s')
=> 1969-12-31 18:00:00 -0600

Time.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z')
=> 1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100

Time.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z').strftime('%s %z')
=> "0 +0100"

-- 
Felipe Contreras