ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone strftime formatting lacks unpadded types

Attempt at better formatting:

Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.8)

>> DateTime.parse("June 5th").strftime("%m %d")

=> "06 05"

>> DateTime.parse("June 5th").strftime("%-m %-d")

=> "6 5"

>> Time.zone.parse("June 5th").strftime("%m %d")

=> "06 05"

>> Time.zone.parse("June 5th").strftime("%-m %-d")

=> "-m -d"

I can confirm that this is an issue with rails3 too.

It seems this is a ruby issue.

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> Time.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "-m -d"
irb(main):002:0> Time.now.strftime("%m %d")
=> "05 29"
irb(main):003:0> DateTime.now.strftime("%m %d")
=> "05 29"
irb(main):004:0> DateTime.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "5 29"
irb(main):005:0> exit

nsingh@ ~ 
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10.2.0]

santiago@debian:/tmp$ irb
>> Time.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "6 3"
>> Time.now.strftime("%m %d")
=> "06 03"
>> DateTime.now.strftime("%m %d")
=> "06 03"
>> DateTime.now.strftime("%-m %-d")
=> "6 3"
>> santiago@debian:/tmp$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [x86_64-linux]

Since it appears to be a platform-dependent Ruby issue, I reported this to the Ruby error tracker: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3541

Ok you're right Evan, and yeah reporting to ruby is the right way to go, thanks ;).