From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-05-01T12:53:53+09:00
Subject: Re: how to represent Date before epoch as a integer

Hi,

At Tue, 1 May 2007 12:01:51 +0900,
Yaxm Yaxm wrote in [ruby-talk:249770]:
> yeah. using Julian Day number works.
> 
> But there's no years_ago method in date class.

$ ruby -rdate -e 'puts Date.today << 50 * 12'
1957-05-01

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Nobu Nakada