From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T01:03:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.yesterday ? :)

Reinder Verlinde <reinder@verlinde.invalid> writes:

> In article <ufypux4u2.fsf@atlmicampbell.checkfree.com>,
>  Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Marcin Jurczuk <mj-usunto@tkb.pl> writes:
> > 
> > > Hello group.
> > > 
> > > Is there any simple method to get Time object like Time.now but with
> > > yesterday date, without worrying about end of month or begining new one ?
> > 
> > Pedantic to be sure, but keep in mind all the variations on the
> > "... - 86400" scheme universally fail during the Daylight Savings
> > Time cutovers that some of us are unfortunate to have to suffer.
> > 
> > Probably this won't affect you.
> 
> Even more pedantic: even if it does not, the assumption that every
> day has 86400 seconds is still incorrect. A day with a leap second
> has 86401 or 86399 (has not happened yet) seconds.

*Chuckle* I completely forgot about that too; good catch. =)

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