From: Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T23:52:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question by apparent old guy;)

This is apparently inconsistent across platforms because if I do

'p Time.local(1952)' on my windows machine (ruby  1.8.2) I get an out of
range error.

_Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Kero [mailto:kero@chello.single-dot.nl] 
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:36 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
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.

What I found in some of my code:
      # Ruby 1.6 accepts only Time after 1970, Jan 1 (UTC)
      # Ruby 1.7 accepts Time before that

and if I try (debian has 1.6 and 1.8 coexisting) that is confirmed:

$ ruby1.6 -e 'p Time.local(1952)'
-e:1:in `local': argument out of range (ArgumentError)
        from -e:1
$ ruby1.8 -e 'p Time.local(1952)'
Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 1952

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