Bug #4662: Date#strftime %v gives allcaps instead of normal caps

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: 1.9.3
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-05-09 trunk 31496) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]

[d-snp (Tinco Andringa)]

Since the big strftime changes of past month strftime gives a capitalised month abbreviation like so:

'%v'=>[' 3-FEB-2001' {:mday=>3,:mon=>2,:year=>2001}]

This is different from before where:

'%v'=>[' 3-Feb-2001',{:mday=>3,:mon=>2,:year=>2001}],

Is there a reason for this change or was it accidental? It breaks with all previous ruby versions and is also inconsistent with for example %b or %c.

[d-snp (Tinco Andringa)]

I have submitted a pull request for convenience:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/18

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

Tell me when the patch is OK. I can pull it.

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

%v must be nonstandard.
pd version gives "21-MAY-2011" for today.
some BSD dist's strftime gives "21-May-2011" that is also my choice.

this time i adopted pd version which is same as Time's one.
the one of reasons is "VMS like" if v means VMS.

i'm not sure, but, anyway, revert.

[wanabe (_ wanabe)]

• Related to Bug #13810: Inconsistency between Date and Time.strftime("%v") added