Bug #16768: "\n" started not to work as a delimiter in time zone names for Date._strptime since 2.7.0

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.7.0
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[dmikurube (Dai MIKURUBE)]

Confirmed on: Ruby 2.7.0 on Mac OS X 10.13.

require 'date'
DateTime._strptime("aus\neastern standard time", "%z")

Expected (Ruby 2.6.3 works like this):

=> {:zone=>"aus\neastern standard time", :offset=>36000}

Actual on Ruby 2.7.0 :

=> {:zone=>"aus\neastern standard time", :offset=>nil}

Appendix:

• A space character case, such as "aus eastern standard time", still works on Ruby 2.7.0.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

This seems more like a bugfix than a regression to me, even if the change was unintended. Is there a reason you would want the previous behavior? In any case, issues in the date library should be filed upstream: https://github.com/ruby/date/issues