From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T07:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: In the year 2525

Hi,

In message "Re: In the year 2525"
    on Sun, 8 Oct 2006 03:16:40 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@Sun.COM> writes:

|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?

I think it is an OK diversion.

							matz.