Issue #19293 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).
I think a new method is cleaner. Or maybe reusing `Time.iso8601`.
It feels a hack for Time.new two wildly different things based on the number of arguments
and as shown here it's ambiguous.
I had the same concerns when Time.new started supporting this, so "told you so"
feeling here.
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Bug #19293: The new Time.new(String) API is nice... but we still need a stricter version
of this
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19293#change-101264
* Author: matsuda (Akira Matsuda)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.3.0dev (2023-01-01T07:39:00Z master 542e984d82) +YJIT [arm64-darwin21]
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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The Ruby 3.2 style `Time.new(String)` API works very well so far, but since the original
`Time.new(Integer, Integer, Integer...)` API actually accepts String objects as its
arguments, there's one ambiguous case as follows:
`Time.new('20230123') #=> 20230123-01-01 00:00:00 +0900`
Then the problem that I'm facing is that we cannot tell if `Time.new` would parse the
given String as ISO8601-ish or just a year, and in order to avoid this ambiguity, we still
need to somehow parse the String beforehand in our application side (like we're doing
this way in Ruby on Rails
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/c49b8270/activemodel/lib/active_model/t…),
then dispatch to the new `Time.new` only when the String is validated to be conforming the
ISO format. Otherwise, if we just optimistically pass in given Strings to `Time.new`,
we'll occasionally get a Time object with an unintended buggy value.
Therefore, it unfortunately seems that my feature request on #16005 still continues... I
have to keep proposing that we need either of the following:
1. A trustworthy version of ISO8601 parser method perhaps with another name than `.new`
that accepts strict ISO8601-ish String only (but with the T delimiter, I still don't
know what the proper name of this format is).
2. Change `Time.new(Integer-ish, Integer-ish, Integer-ish...)` not to accept Integer-ish
Strings but to accept only Integers. But I can imagine that this direction is very
unlikely acceptable, due to the incompatibility.
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time_benchmark.rb (1.24 KB)
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