From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T07:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: dow ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance?

Jochen Hayek wrote:
> Why is ruby's core class Time acting like this:
> 
> $ env LC_ALL=fr_FR date '+%A'
> mardi
> $ env LC_ALL=fr_FR ruby -e 't = Time.now; puts t.strftime("%A")'
> Tuesday
> 
> I would actually like ruby to act like "date" and "obey"
> to POSIX or whatever we are used to in the *IX world,
> which in turn certainly uses libc's strftime.

In Ruby 1.8.x, you need to use the external ruby-locale library to set 
the locale before you use any Date/Time functions (otherwise the output 
is always in English).  See this post for an example:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/

> I heard rumour, that "this is the standard",
> and "it must stay this way".

It has been the "standard way" for 1.8.x, but I hope 1.9 fixes this. 
Does anyone know?
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