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SukiSan

.utc modifies time object

Reported by SukiSan | May 6th, 2010 @ 03:19 PM

A call to utc modifies the object itself.


t = Time.now => Thu May 06 16:15:14 +0200 2010 t.utc => Thu May 06 14:15:14 UTC 2010 t => Thu May 06 14:15:14 UTC 2010

It shouldn't be like that or the method should be called .utc!

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  • SukiSan

    SukiSan May 6th, 2010 @ 03:20 PM

    • no changes were found...
  • SukiSan

    SukiSan May 6th, 2010 @ 03:26 PM

    • Tag changed from utc time zone to utc

    hurk, sorry for bad format and the useless change - I'm new here :-)

    t = Time.now
    => Thu May 06 16:15:14 0200 2010

    t.utc
    => Thu May 06 14:15:14 UTC 2010

    t
    => Thu May 06 14:15:14 UTC 2010

  • ronin-18448 (at lighthouseapp)

    ronin-18448 (at lighthouseapp) May 6th, 2010 @ 04:14 PM

    I don't think this is a Rails problem, Time is a Ruby class. This has nothing to do with Rails if I'm right.

  • Neeraj Singh

    Neeraj Singh May 6th, 2010 @ 04:39 PM

    As Simon said it is ruby that is exhibiting the behavior mentioned by Suki.

    Suki: In your test the time displayed in the first case and time displayed in the third case is the same time. The only thing is that first one has time in local format and the third one is in UTC format. But the value of t has not changed the way it displays the internal data has changed.

  • SukiSan

    SukiSan May 6th, 2010 @ 07:05 PM

    Well, yeah sure...

    The thing that actually confused me was

    date = Time.local(2010, 3, 1)
    date.utc
    date.end_of_month.utc # == end of feb

    Even that makes sense now. Altough it is confusing that .utc has side effects on the object.

  • Dan Pickett

    Dan Pickett May 9th, 2010 @ 06:46 PM

    • Assigned user set to “Ryan Bigg”

    Passing to Ryan for cleanup. This is a Ruby behavior so this issue should likely be marked as "invalid" or "wontfix"

  • Ryan Bigg

    Ryan Bigg May 9th, 2010 @ 10:17 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “invalid”

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