From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-11-17T00:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting between Time and DateTime

In article <437B3393.9020708@cheapcomplexdevices.com>,
  Ron M <rm_rails@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:

> I'd like to see a Time with an out-of-range year automatically
> produce a 'BigTime' class in exactly the same way that an out
> of range integer produces a Bignum.    Whether this is the same
> as DateTime or not doesn't matter much to me.  Being able to
> use a realistic range of dates in DBI does.

I think it is hard to do.

Time class needs timezone information provided by OS.  But
OS doesn't provides the information for out-of-range year.

So currently I hope 64bit time_t in 64bit OS will be popular.
Since Ruby supports 64bit time_t, Time class works with much
more future on such OS.
-- 
Tanaka Akira