From: has <has.temp3@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T03:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Time bug?


Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |t = Time.local(2006, 3, 26, 1, 0, 0) # summer
> |p [t.isdst, t] # [true, Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 BST 2006] #  why not 01:00:00???
>
> Because Sun Mar 26 01:00:00 BST 2006 does not exist because of DST
> shifting.

[slaps self] Ah, of course. So obvious. This is what happens when one
tries to bridge Ruby's very nice Time class with Mac OS's rather
horrible LongDateTime type without enough sleep.;)

I guess I was just thrown by Time automatically adjusting the invalid
input, rather than just throwing an error. But I see why there might be
a justification for doing it that way.

Many thanks,

has

p.s. What's the recommended method for converting BigNums to long long
and vice-versa in C?