From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@...>
Date: 2006-04-30T02:27:05+09:00
Subject: Re: time.parse fails for year values > 2037 (time out of range) in ruby 1.8.4

On 4/29/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is not a limitation of Ruby, but of your operating system.  If
> you have a OS which time_t is 64-bit (e.g. 64-bit AIX), you can use
> Time well beyond 2038.

I don't agree. Other laguages typically implement this type of core
functionality independently of the OS. E.g. Python and C# both support
datetime constructs without this limitation on 32-bit systems. Making
the language dependent on OS libraries reduce portability.

> If you need a bigger range, check for Date and DateTime; these
> libraries are a lot slower than native Time, however.

DateTime has the same limit (I believe it uses the Time library as
well). Date does not support time.

Regards,

Peter Krantz

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