From: Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T03:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: In the year 2525

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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

In light of the x86_64 responses, I'd wager it's ok :) I don't know what 
the performance is like, though, for Java's Date compared to the POSIX 
calls.

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