From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T16:18:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!

Hi,

In message "Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!"
    on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:36:13 +0900, Daniel Hobe <hobe@gmail.com> writes:

|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.

Hmm, usually I don't respond to mails saying "un-rubyish" or "POLS",
but this time I agree with that "utc" and "getutc" combination is more
un-rubyish than "utc" and "utc!".  But I'm not sure if we can fix it
for compatibility reason.

							matz.