From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T18:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Mysterious Date Parsing Failures: NaN

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:09:09PM +0900, Zev Blut wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:49:21 +0900, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Zev Blut wrote:
> >
> >>That is quite odd, I cannot recreate it on my machine.
> >
> >Did you try calling it a lot. It happens only once every few hundred
> >thousand times.
> 
> Ah, no I did not.  Although, I just tried it with the following code
> with no problems.
> 
> require "date"
> (1000000).times { Date.new(2003, 4, 11) }
> 
Tried to put it into irb, no problems found.
hramrach@Dell:ttyp2(1) 10290419 512:12]~ $ uname -a
NetBSD Dell 2.0_RC2 NetBSD 2.0_RC2 (Dell) #0: Sat Oct  2 23:46:21 CEST
2004  hramrach@Dell:/scratch/obj/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/Dell i386
hramrach@Dell:ttyp2(1) 10290420 513:13]~ $ ruby -v
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i386-netbsdelf]