From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T23:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: time.parse fails for year values > 2037 (time out of range) in ruby 1.8.4

Looks like the Unix time limitation. Unix based OS, like darin,  uses
the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 to represent the time. In 2036
(I think in August sometime) the number of seconds that can be
reperesented in a 32 bit integer will be too large to fit. Gonna have
to hold out till 64 bit computing takes hold.

Farrel