Misc #12310: ctime vs asctime - Documentation Issue? - http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/Time.html

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -

[robertmcginn (Robert McGinn)]

All,

I was working through the Time Class documentation at http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/Time.html.

I noted a potential typo in the example code as per below.

**ctime** → string click to toggle source
Returns a canonical string representation of time.

Time.now.**asctime**   #=> "Wed Apr  9 08:56:03 2003"

The example code references a separate method (asctime) as oppose to ctime.

Running "methods" on a time object does reference two separate methods:-

asctime
ctime

I did a search and could not find a bug relating to this.

Best regards,

Robert

[robertmcginn (Robert McGinn)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Misc

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r54703.

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time.c: add example [ci skip]

• time.c (time_asctime): [DOC] add ctime example, not only
  asctime. [ruby-core:75126] [Bug #12310]

[stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)]

@robert (Robert Gleeson)

FYI, Time#ctime and Time#asctime are aliases.