From: sandstrom sandstrom Date: 2010-12-04T07:20:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:33551] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4068] Replace current standard Date/DateTime library with home_run Issue #4068 has been updated by sandstrom sandstrom. I agree with Benoit and Mathew, that a date should be a point in a calendar, not in time (and reserve DateTime or Time for those cases). Furthermore, I think the partials (below), e.g. day and month without year or just a day, would be useful. E.g. when representing something that recur the 10th of every month. "A more general approach is that taken by the JSR-310 proposed replacement for Java's date and time APIs, which allows "partials"--incompletely specified positions on the timeline. So not only can you have 2010-11-29, you can have November 29 with no year specified." ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4068 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org