From: Sam Gentle <sgentle@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T15:51:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting between Time and DateTime

On 11/15/05, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2005 11:12 am, Adam Sanderson wrote:
> > Is there any reason to choose one over the other?   At least for post
> > 1970 dates?  I've always found Time's API a little easier to use.
> >
> > Anyone have thoughts on when one would want to use DateTime vs Time?
>
> The range is one difference.  If you want to represent 376 AD, you can't use
> Time.
>
> Time will be faster, since DateTime uses Rational for everything.  DateTime's
> units are days and fractions of days.  That might make a difference to you,
> or it might not.  If you are doing a lot of date conversion or date math, you
> might find DateTime easier to use.

Sounds a bit to me like the difference between Fixnum and Bignum...

Sam