From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T05:17:11+09:00
Subject: Re: time class changed in ruby-1.8.6?

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On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:28:45 am Matthew Rudy wrote:
> Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) wrote:
> > Hi guys. I'm in the process of migrating a ruby app from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6
> > and noticed that the Time class seems to have changed. It used to have a
> > convenient to_date method, but is now lacking it, and I've had little
> > luck trying to find the release notes indicating why this changed. Can
> > anyone point in that direction and/or suggest a better way of converting
> > times to dates? Merci.
> >=20
> > - donald
>=20
> I think I've found another change.
> I don't know if this is on purpose.
>=20
> But at some point before ruby 1.8.6 the following code worked;
>=20
> >> Time.now.strftime("%d %h '%y")                                      =20
> =3D> "02 Sep '07"
> >> Time.now.strftime("%d %b '%y")                                      =20
> =3D> "02 Sep '07"
>=20
> But now in 1.8.6;
>=20
> >> Time.now.strftime("%d %h '%y")
> =3D> ""
> >> Time.now.strftime("%d %b '%y")
> =3D> "02 Sep '07"
>=20
> ie. seemingly support for "%h" has been removed.

It hasn't been here.

irb(main):001:0> Time.now.strftime("%h")
=3D> "Sep"
irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
=3D> "1.8.6"

=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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