From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T03:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.gm(1969) chokes on Windows

If you want a date, use Date.  (require 'date')

It handled any date you'd care to throw at it and 1969/1970 is not an  
issue.

-Rob

On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:20 PM, James Tucker wrote:

> 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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