From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T05:45:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30034] Re: years in Time.utc

>> Time.new -20002 # Seems to be an infinite loop, it takes 100% during at least 60s
> ^C^C^CKilled
>
> Any idea why does it get stuck like that ?

Seems to work here:

irb(main):001:0> Time.new -20002
=> -20002-01-01 00:00:00 -0700

ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-05) [i386-mingw32]