Feature #15958: Time#inspect with frac

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

When Matz changed Time#to_s format in 2006, frac part of Time string is dropped because it is considered not useful.
[ruby-dev:29440]

But recently we encounters some troubles the comparison of Time objects whose frac parts are different.
https://twitter.com/__gfx__/status/1143056072422219776

For example a is original object and b is once stored in RDB (and dropped the frac part).
Or there're multiple time objects which are generated in a single HTTP request.
Of course they are different and assert_equal will be failed but inspect doesn't show the frac part.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

I am not entirely against the idea, just worrying compatibility.
Should we experiment Time#inspect with fraction output?

Matz.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset git|5208c431bef3240eb251f5da23723b324431a98e.

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Separate Time#inspect from to_s and show subsec [Feature #15958]

[Eregon (Benoit Daloze)]

• Related to Feature #16470: Issue with nanoseconds in Time#inspect added