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01/12/2015

04:40 PM Ruby Bug #10733: Time.httpdate raises ArgumentError when DateTime.now.httpdate is provided as input

After some experimentation it looks like this has something do with the fact that `DateTime#httpdate` returns an `US-ASCII` encoded string.
```ruby
require 'time'
from_httpdate = DateTime.now.httpdate
as_string = "Mon, 12 J... mcls (Maarten Claes)

12:14 PM Ruby Bug #10733 (Closed): Time.httpdate raises ArgumentError when DateTime.now.httpdate is provided as input

An irb session demonstrating the bug:
```
irb(main):001:0> require 'time'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Time.httpdate("Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:04:15 GMT")
=> 2015-01-12 12:04:15 UTC
irb(main):003:0> DateTime.now.httpdate.to_s
=> "Mon, 12... mcls (Maarten Claes)