# Strftime

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strftime/67377>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 3, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strftime/67377 "2006-09-03T03:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tadayoshi_F)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strftime/67377/1 "2006-09-03T03:19:35Z")

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$ ruby16 -v -e ‘s=Time.now.strftime("%a\000%a"); p [s, s.size]’  
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i386-freebsd5.4]  
[“Sun\000Sun”, 7]

$ ruby -v -e ‘s=Time.now.strftime("%a\000%a"); p [s, s.size]’  
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-freebsd5.4]  
[“SunSun”, 6]

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**Author:** ![Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tadayoshi_F)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strftime/67377/2 "2006-09-04T14:44:04Z")

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# Index: time.c

RCS file: /home/K8052/cvs/ruby/time.c,v  
retrieving revision 1.90.2.21  
diff -U 2 -r1.90.2.21 time.c  
— time.c 27 Jul 2006 13:23:18 -0000 1.90.2.21  
+++ time.c 4 Sep 2006 00:57:52 -0000  
@@ -1861,5 +1861,5 @@  
len = rb\_strftime(&buf, p, &tobj-\>tm);  
rb\_str\_cat(str, buf, len);

- 

```
  p += strlen(p) + 1;

```

- 

```
  p += strlen(p);
  if (buf != buffer) {
  free(buf);

```

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**Author:** ![Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Tadayoshi\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tadayoshi_F)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strftime/67377/3 "2006-09-04T14:44:12Z")

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In message “Re: [ruby-dev:29452] Re: strftime”  
on Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:28:19 +0900, “Nobuyoshi N.”  
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