Idea: Suppress leading space for, e.g., "3:00pm" ? about stamp HOT 5 CLOSED

It may be possible but would take some work. The issue is that strftime includes the space for single digit values with %l (for hour) and %e (for day of month). Stamp is simply inheriting the strftime behavior.

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What about %1I ?? that should suppress the leading space or 0.

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@tuker @mulder Nice, it looks like %1I (that's a capital 'eye') works the same as %-I, suppressing the leading space.

If you didn't catch it, this Bostonrb thread goes over it... http://groups.google.com/group/boston-rubygroup/browse_thread/thread/157927fdf102b93e/39b1b10aa3d3fbeb

I'd love to update Stamp to use this (if available in whatever Ruby you're using) but haven't had a real issue with the leading space myself yet. Ultimately I'd like to decouple Stamp from strftime.

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Just incase anyone else needs this functionality right now and they don't know about squeeze, I've just been passing my formatted timestamps through it like date.stamp('Jan 1, 2000 at 1:59 PM').squeeze(' '). I didn't even know about squeeze until recently myself.

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-squeeze

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With help from @kbrock, we've decoupled stamp from strftime, which eliminates the leading space behavior. This is currently on the rip-strftime branch, and I plan to merge to master and release a new version of the gem soon.

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