From: Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T23:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question by apparent old guy;)

The "Time" class stores its value as a unix timestamp, which is defined as
the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. Dates earlier than that won't work.

Try using "Date" or "DateTime" instead. 

_Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: len [mailto:lsumnler@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:11 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Newbie question by apparent old guy;)


I was trying some code from the "Learning to Program" by Chris Pine,
excellent site by the way for learning Ruby.

The code I tried was;

puts Time.mktime(1952, 4, 3)

I get an error;

Argument Error: argument out of range

Don't tell me Ruby practices age discrimination:{o

Len Sumnler
(Old Programmer)