From: noreply@...
Date: 2007-04-13T19:06:14+09:00
Subject: [ ruby-Bugs-10083 ] Inconsistencies between Time and Date classes

Bugs item #10083, was opened at 2007-04-13 12:06
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Category: Standard Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Jan Faber (fjan)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Inconsistencies between Time and Date classes

Initial Comment:

The Time and Date class treat edge cases differently. This is prone to introduce errors since they are often used together.

Example 1: 24:00 is valid in DateTime but not in Time
puts DateTime::valid_time?(24,0,0) # => 1 (valid)
puts Time.utc(2007,1,1,24,0) # => Argument error: argument out of range

Example 2: 31st of april wraps around in Time but is an error in Date
puts Time.parse("4/31/2007") # => Tue May 1 00:00:00 2007
puts DateTime.parse("4/31/2007") # => Argument error: invalid date

Especially the first one is annoying because you need to check for "hour==24" everywhere you parse a human entered string into a since otherwise it will parse and validate fine but then error out when you try to make a time out of it. (Try out entering 24:00 as a time in a random RoR application and see it crash :-/)

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