Excerpts from Benoît PIERRE's message of Thu Dec 31 16:27:41 -0500 2009:
> Excerpts from Eric Sherman's message of Thu Dec 31 22:03:40 +0100 2009:
> > Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Dec 31 15:14:50 -0500 2009:
> > > Reformatted excerpts from Eric Sherman's message of 2009-12-31:
> > > > %P in 1.8.7 displays a literal "P" always, whereas %P in 1.9 display
> > > > am/pm.
> > >
> > > That's not the case for me. I get an am/pm for 1.8.7 patch levels 174
> > > and 72 (the two I have on hand). Unless there's some weird Debian
> > > patching going on.
> > >
> > > Can anyone else confirm?
> >
> > Here's a simple test for others to try:
> >
> > $ ruby --version
> > ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10]
> > $ irb
> > irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
> > => "1.8.7"
> > irb(main):002:0> Time.now().strftime("%l:%M%P")
> > => " 3:58P"
> > irb(main):003:0> quit
> > $ ruby1.9 --version
> > ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10]
> > $ irb1.9 irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
> > => "1.9.1"
> > irb(main):002:0> Time.now().strftime("%l:%M%P")
> > => " 3:58pm"
>
> # ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux]
> # ruby -e 'puts Time.now().strftime("%l:%M%P")'
> 10:21pm
>
> # ruby1.9 --version
> ruby 1.9.0 (2008-10-04 revision 19669) [x86_64-linux]
> # ruby1.9 -e 'puts Time.now().strftime("%l:%M%P")'
> 10:22pm
>
> That's on Ubuntu Karmic.
Hmm. Maybe this issue only exists on OSX. I'm kind of jealous that linux
rubies get features from the future! I first heard about this AM/PM
behavior from [this][1] sup-talk thread and hadn't noticed it myself until
then.
[1]: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2009-December/003599.html
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