From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T02:14:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting between Time and DateTime

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 6:22 am, Ron M wrote:
> Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> > Chris Pine wrote:
> >> I *wish* Time and DateTime worked more like Fixnum and Bignum.
> >
> > What kind of change would you suggest?
>
> I'd like classes like DBI that use Time to (through some trick
> like integer->bignum) allow dates 200 years in the future.
>
>
> Today, that's not the case, and selecting fields representing
> a 200-year-lease throws an error when done through DBI.

That's a DBI problem, though.  DBI should use a class appropriate for the 
input, and IMHO, should probably default to DateTime instead of Time, though 
that's not really a backwards compatible change.  The next best thing is for 
DBI to pay attention to the inputs, and use DateTime in cases where the 
inputs are out of range for Time.

I can provide you with a patch to enable that.  Maybe today.


Kirk Haines