From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T20:29:52+09:00
Subject: Date.to_time error

Hi,

I'm messing with some dates and (being new to ruby), I've come across an 
interesting problem

I have a new date object

start_date = Date.new 1901, 01, 01

now I can call

start_date.respond_to?(:to_time)

and everything is fine, and I get true back

assert_equal true, start_date.respond_to?(:to_time)

however

time = start_date.to_time

breaks with an Argument out of range error

This is on the version of Ruby on my WinXP machine here at work, (one 
click installer - cheers for that, so much easier than the hell that is 
installing on MacOSX)

Any ideas what I should be doing?  Looking at the API docs, a Date 
object shouldn't respond to to_time - indeed I can't find the to_time 
method - but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place

Sorry if this is a ridiculous message, but I'm kinda interested in how I 
should approach this - it's someone elses code and I don't want to use a 
Time object instead of the original date, I think it's a bug in the code 
(that I found - w00t!), but I want to be sure before I post bug reports 
etc etc

Kev