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Bug #11595

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Time#utc? and Time#gmt? return misleading results based on $TZ

Added by davidcelis (David Celis) over 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin14]
[ruby-core:71089]

Description

There is an issue with Time#utc? and its alias, Time#gmt?, that return misleading results based on the value of the TZ environment variable. It seems that the only way for a Time instance to return true for utc? is if you explicitly call #utc on it before:

ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC'
# => "UTC"
time = Time.now
# => 2015-10-14 19:30:00 +0000
time.utc?
# => false
time = time.utc
# => 2015-10-14 19:30:00 UTC
time.utc?
# => true

This seems misleading based on the value of $TZ being "UTC". The expected result for calling Time.now.utc? in this case would be true, as would that be expected for time zones that are considered links to "UTC" based on the tzdata list. These include "UTC", "GMT", "Etc/UTC", "Etc/GMT", "Universal", etc.


Files

time_utc.patch (927 Bytes) time_utc.patch nkmrya (Yasuhiro Nakamura), 11/30/2015 01:27 PM
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