From: Jeremy Evans Date: 2010-11-24T02:12:10+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:33303] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4068] Replace current standard Date/DateTime library with home_run Issue #4068 has been updated by Jeremy Evans. home_run is not at all about imitating Time. If you want some background on home_run and what problems it attempts to solve, please see my RubyConf presentation: http://jeremyevans-pres.heroku.com/rc2010_presentation/img1.html. I agree that in most cases using 1.9.2+, Time is better than DateTime, but Time is not comparable to Date at all. If you want to deal with dates without times, then you should use Date and not Time. home_run implements all of Date's API, other than the differences mentioned in this ticket's description, so I'm not sure which "rich functions" you are referring to that are currently implemented by the standard date library that are not implemented by home_run. If you mention these specifically, it's always possible that they could be added. It would be very much preferable to have either one of the following happen: 1) A flat out rejection of having home_run replace the current date standard library, even if no explanation is given. 2) An agreement for having home_run replace the current date standard library, with specific conditions. Leaving this ticket open with no indication about how to ready home_run for acceptance is the worst case. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4068 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org