From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T00:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Super return changed in 1.8.6

On 7/3/07, Han Holl <han.holl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following snippet:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
> require 'date'
> class MyDate < Date
>   def self.today
>     super
>   end
> end
> puts MyDate.today.class
> ## end
>
> prints out 'MyDate' with ruby 1.8.4 and 1.8.5, but 'Date' with 1.8.6
>
> Is this a bug in 1.8.6, or the correction of a long lived bug in
> versions before ?

It looks like perhaps the date library has changed in 1.8.6

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6/NEWS

" * date

   * Updated based on date2 4.0.3. "

I've not investigated further.