From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-12-15T05:24:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!

On Dec 14, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Daniel Hobe wrote:

> Writing a script yesterday I found out, much to my surprise, that the
> Time instance methods utc and localtime modify the receiver and don't
> end in !.  Is this something that could change in 1.9?  It seems very
> un-rubyish.

I consider it not quite a ! method because it only changes the  
representation of the time, not the time itself.

$ ruby -e 't1 = Time.now; t2 = t1.dup.gmtime; puts t1 == t2, t1, t2'
true
Wed Dec 14 12:23:21 PST 2005
Wed Dec 14 20:23:21 UTC 2005

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