From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T20:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.to_time error

Kev Jackson wrote:

> 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
>
Interestingly it seems to be a real bug in the code (yes respond to 
myself but whatever).

I've now discovered that any date prior to 1970 breaks when to_time is 
called on it.

Nice, so I have to update the code (just unit tests) to use at a minimum 
1970 for this test case

Kev