Issue #7445 has been updated by tadf (tadayoshi funaba).


but you can't preserve offset with mktime(3).
if you want substring which denote %z, you can call _strptime.

DateTime._strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z') #=> {:seconds=>0, :zone=>"+0100", :offset=>3600}

you told about C's stdlib.
why not talk about ruby's Time?
Time is based on stdlib.
why not want it with Time?
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Bug #7445: strptime('%s %z') doesn't work
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7445#change-39783

Author: felipec (Felipe Contreras)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Low
Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
Category: lib
Target version: Next Major
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p327
Backport: 


See:

    ruby -e "require 'date'; p DateTime.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z').strftime('%s %z')"

The timezone is ignored.


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