From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-01-31T18:24:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10163] Re: DateTime class for Ruby?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrew Hunt wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:43:05 +0900, Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a "DateTime" class in Ruby, which can handle dates before 1970
> > as well as storing the time?
> > If I use Date from "date.rb" this will not store the time, and
> > if I use Time this will raise an "time out of range" error when year is below 1970 (UNIX-date :(.
>
>
> Most people don't seem to care about time when dealing with
> dates a few hundred years old :-)
>
> Just out of curiosity, what is the application that
> requires this?

I've just completing XML-RPC for Ruby.
But one of the official test-suite's tests gives a dateTime like
"1904-01-04 05:04:12" which I convert to a Date object and
had to return to the test-suite.
The value returned is "1904-01-04 12:00:00".
Of course it fails :)


>
> /\ndy

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Michael Neumann