From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-02T04:29:30+09:00
Subject: Re: time.parse fails for year values > 2037 (time out of range) in ruby 1.8.4

On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Peter Krantz wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am trying to parse dates that take place in the future. When event
> dates occur after 2038-01-01 i get an time out of range error. To
> reproduce in irb:
>
> irb(main):078:0> t = "2038-12-01T15:00:00.000Z"
> => "2038-12-01T15:00:00.000Z"
>
> irb(main):079:0> s = "2012-12-01T15:00:00.000Z"
> => "2012-12-01T15:00:00.000Z"
>
> irb(main):080:0> Time::parse(s)
> => Sat Dec 01 15:00:00 UTC 2012
>
> irb(main):081:0> Time::parse(t)
> ArgumentError: time out of range
>        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:180:in `utc'
>        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:180:in `make_time'
>        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:243:in `parse'
>        from (irb):81
>
> I am running ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.6.1].
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Use a machine with a 64 bit time_t:

$ ruby -rtime -ve 'p Time.parse("3000-01-01")'
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [amd64-freebsd6]
Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 PST 3000

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