From: andy@... (Andrew Hunt)
Date: 2001-01-31T22:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10166] Re: DateTime class for Ruby?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:04:11 +0900, Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> wrote:
> andy@toolshed.com (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?
> 
> A general-purpose library should attempt to anticipate
> and provide for unexpected uses...

Oh, agreed - and I think this ought to be implemented if
it isn't currently.  I'm just curious as to practical
applications outside of astrology :-)

/\ndy