[ruby-core:82634] [Ruby trunk Feature#13860] A proposal for a new, simpler class-method addition to Time - for the time being calling it Time.date() but another name is fine; and the ability to omit '%' tokens as arguments to it

From: se8.and@...
Date: 2017-09-02 13:12:11 UTC
List: ruby-core #82634
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