From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-17T17:05:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19935] Re: interbase-0.04

Hi,

Thank you for releasing it.

In message "[ruby-talk:19934] interbase-0.04"
    on 01/08/17, Brent Rowland <tarod@home.com> writes:

|* Negative dates are floored at zero before conversion to Ruby dates to 
|avoid exceptions.

I haven't check the source yet, but in 1.7.x if NEGATIVE_TIME_T is
defined, Time can be negative (covers from 1902 to 2038 with 32bit
time_t).  So you may not have to floor it on such platforms.

							matz.