From: Jonathan Hudson <jh+ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T18:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: In the year 2525

David Vallner wrote:
> Jim v. Tess wrote:
>> Is there a reason why Time.local can't handle dates beyond 2038?  I know 
>> that's when the number of second since 1970 exceeds 2^32, but can't a 
>> big, strong language like Ruby handle it?
>>
> 
> Because it uses the underlying platform's time manipulation functions?

And brings interesting portability issues (not only for ruby).

$ irb
>>  RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "x86_64-linux"
>>  Time.local(2525)
=> Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2525