From: Claudio Fiorini <claudio@...>
Date: 2009-01-21T17:48:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21482] Re: Time.gm give me ArgumentError out of	range (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24  patchlevel 111) [i486-linux])


> See http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000250
> 
> Time is stored internally as the number of seconds from the epoch.  On
> some platforms/implementations, you are permitted to use negative
> numbers.  That limits you to +/- 2^31 seconds from the epoch (Jan 1,
> 1970).  In fact, you can create times in 1901 on most platforms, just
> not as far back as Jan 1, 1901.
> 

thanks

claudio