[ruby-core:66998] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10588] [Rejected] Invalid Dates

Issue #10588 has been updated by Akira Tanaka.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

It is not good idea to restrict current methods to reject invalid dates and times.

I tried to verify invalid time using round trip test once.
(ruby-core:14517, ruby-dev:33058, r14765, r15203)

But it caused bigger problems over benefits.

Invalid date/time is difficult to determine.
It is almost impossible by application because it depends various factors:
Month, leap year, summer time, leap seconds, time zone definition change.

Sometimes application needs a Time object near given year/month/day/hour/minute/second.
It is very difficult to do using the restricted methods.

So, methods only accept valid dates are less useful than current methods. 


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Bug #10588: Invalid Dates
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10588#change-50527

* Author: Imran ""
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.0.0-p481
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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I was in the process of implementing a date-routine, which could prevent possible out-of-range/invalid date values.

The interpreter, rightfully, threw an out-of range error, when I tried any of the following:
puts Time.mktime 2014, 13, 32
puts Time.mktime 2014, 13, 32

No surprises there. However, when I tried:
puts Time.mktime 2014, 11, 31
The interpreter, happily produced: 2014-12-01.

A little intrigued, I went ahead and tried the following routine:
1.upto(12){|month| puts Time.mktime 2014, month, 31}

Result:
2014-01-31      ok
2014-03-03      ???
2014-03-31      ok
2014-05-01      ???
2014-05-31      ok
2014-07-01      ???
2014-07-31      ok
2014-08-31      ok
2014-10-01      ???
2014-10-31      ok
2014-12-01      ???
2014-12-31      ok

I hope, I've been able to describe this issue adequately.

Thanks Matz & all the contributors for bringing this wonderful tool to us.

Regards.



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