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Evan Dorn

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Tuesday, July 06 2010
4729 ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone strftime formatting lacks unpadded types was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Evan Dorn
    Evan Dorn commented at 2:32 AM

    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
  • Evan Dorn
    • Importance changed from to Low
    by Evan Dorn at 2:16 AM

    It's not the version of Ruby that matters. It's the platform. Works on linux, doesn't work on Mac.

    On a mac, Snow Leopard installed:

    [18:12:52 ~]$ irb ruby-1.8....
Sunday, May 30 2010
4729 ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone strftime formatting lacks unpadded types was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Evan Dorn
    Evan Dorn commented at 1:04 AM

    Attempt at better formatting:

    Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.8)

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

    => "06 05"

    >> DateTime.parse("June 5...
  • Evan Dorn
    Evan Dorn created the ticket at 1:00 AM

    Plain ruby DateTime#strftime supports non-zero-padded month and day codes %-m and %-d, making it possible to generate "March 5, 2010" instead of "March 05, 2010...