psych parses ":"-delimited time strings differently than syck

[erikj]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or changed behavior, perhaps I could get some clarification or resolution via this issue:

colon-delimited strings of integers are parsed by YAML into integer number of seconds. it appears that the psych engine treats the last unit as minutes, whereas syck treated it as seconds, ie.:

#1.9.3
ruby-1.9.3-p392>> require 'yaml'
=> true
ruby-1.9.3-p392>> YAML.load '1:00'
=> 3600
ruby-1.9.3-p392>> YAML::ENGINE.yamler = 'syck'
=> "syck"
ruby-1.9.3-p392>> YAML.load '1:00'
=> 60

#2.0.0
ruby-2.0.0-p195>> require 'yaml'
=> true
ruby-2.0.0-p195>> YAML.load '1:00'
=> 3600

if this change of behavior is documented somewhere, I'd appreciate if you could point me to it.

thanks!

[tenderlove]

Hrm. I'm not sure what to do about this. I believe this is a bug in the base 60 support. I don't think the behavior should have changed. I must dig further.

One thing that's interesting, it looks like YAML 1.1 supports base 60 floats but YAML 1.2 does not. I'm not sure how that will impact us (eventually). :-(