From: sto.mar@...
Date: 2012-08-04T23:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: %Q of DateTime#strftime not working

Am 04.08.2012 02:45, schrieb Jingjing Duan:
> The rdoc says the following about the %Q directive:
>
>   %Q - Number of microseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
>
> However, it seems to return the number of milliseconds instead.
>
> 1.9.3p194 :067 >   now = DateTime.now
>   => #<DateTime: 2012-08-03T17:43:10-07:00
> ((2456144j,2590s,721033000n),-25200s,2299161j)>
> 1.9.3p194 :068 > now.strftime("%s")
>   => "1344040990"
> 1.9.3p194 :069 > now.strftime("%Q")
>   => "1344040990721"
> 1.9.3p194 :070 > now.to_time.usec
>   => 721033
>
> As you can tell, the 'now' object does have microsecond accuracy. So why
> doesn't %Q work as advertised?
>

It's a bug in the documentation, it should read
"Number of milliseconds".

I already submitted a patch.

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