From: Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T03:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: In the year 2525

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?

It works in JRuby...would that be considered an incompatibility, or is 
it an ok diversion from the C impl?

irb(main):001:0> Time.local(2038)
=> Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2038
irb(main):002:0> Time.local(2039)
=> Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2039
irb(main):003:0> Time.local(10191)
=> Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 10191

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