From: Clifford Heath <clifford.heath@...>
Date: 2011-06-09T09:11:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36871] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Feature #4644] DateTime.new does not work with Float

On 09/06/2011, at 9:38 AM, Stefan Radomski wrote:
> When initializing a DateTime object, one can pass seconds as Floats,  
> like 5.5. The decimals get added to sec_fraction. This works great  
> in Ruby 1.9, but not in 1.8.

Even more amazing to me, is that you can't pass a DateTime to  
DateTime.new,
and the same for Date. Surely you should be able to construct one from  
another?

I should probably raise a separate issue for this...?

Clifford Heath.