From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T03:20:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.gm(1969) chokes on Windows

It may or may not be related, but check in:

Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Regional Options ->  
Customize... -> Date -> "Calendar"

You'll find the default time ranges for date assumptions.

It's quite likely that ruby doesn't use these though.

On 3 Jan 2008, at 14:12, Tim Ferrell wrote:

>
> I was trying to sort out a YAML parsing issue on Windows XP SP 2 and
> traced it to Time.gm failing on pre-1970 dates ... this works fine on
> both Ubuntu Linux and my Mac... Any ideas or workarounds?
>
> Thanks!
> Tim
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>