[ruby-core:33601] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4068] Replace current standard Date/DateTime library with home_run

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 13:31, Jeremy Evans <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Fractional dates means that a Date object also holds a time component.
>  They are an implementation detail of the current standard date library,
> which stores both Date and DateTime objects using the same data structure.
> It leads to the problem shown in
> http://jeremyevans-pres.heroku.com/rc2010_presentation/img40.html.  Also,
> two Date objects that represent the same date can be considered non-equal
> because they have different times (e.g. one at midnight and one at noon).
>

Well, unless that behavior was ever documented as part of the API, I'd say
it's worth removing.


mathew
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