From: Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T21:58:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] KirbyBase 2.2

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

>Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@twmi.rr.com> writes:
>
>  
>
>>gabriele renzi wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>why don't use a Time object?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I chose to have Date/DateTime be field types in KirbyBase, rather than
>>Time, because Time can only store dates back to 1970.
>>    
>>
>
>ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin7.7.0]
>
>irb(main):006:0> Time.at -1600000000
>=> Sun Apr 20 12:33:20 CET 1919
>  
>

When I tried this on my WindowsXP machine I got the following error:

irb(main):001:0> Time.at -1600000000
ArgumentError: time must be positive
        from (irb):1:in `at'
        from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0>


So, it does not let you use negative Times on XP.  That's why I had to 
use Date/DateTime.

Jamey


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