From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T18:02:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.to_time error

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:46:42PM +0900, Dimitri Aivaliotis wrote:
> On 7/20/05, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've now discovered that any date prior to 1970 breaks when to_time is
> > called on it.
> > 
> 
> That would make sense, since Time represents time since the Epoch. 
> See http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_time.html for further
> details.

But what's wrong with negative time values?

Unix supports this AFAIK. This with FreeBSD:

$ date -r -1000000
Sat Dec 20 11:13:20 BST 1969

And the big time wraparound occurs at t = 2^31, not t = 2^32:

$ date -r 2147483647
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038

Regards,

Brian.