From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-07-28T06:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in Time.local?

"Richard A. Ryan" <Richard.A.Ryan@noaa.gov> writes:

>Hi,

>Thanks for the reply.  If the consistency of the treatment of yday
>with mktime means it's not a bug

Well, the fact that it's documented means it's not a bug . . 

>, then why wouldn't the inconsistency with mktime's autonormalization feature
>be a bug?  

I didn't say it wasn't. :)  

Actually, I think that the 10-argument form of Time.local/mktime is deprecated.
You should really be using the 1-to-8 argument forms, which have no wday or
yday fields at all:

        Time.mktime(year[, month[, day[, hour[, min[, sec[, msec[, zone]]]]]]])

I agree that there ought to be a normalizing form of these methods.  For
instance, the Perl Time::Local module includes timelocal_nocheck and
timegm_nocheck to serve that purpose.

-Mark