From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T04:45:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.gm(1969) chokes on Windows

On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Tim Ferrell wrote:
> Thanks Rob, but unfortunately I am not the one doing the parsing -  
> YAML
> is... and it uses Time.gm/Time.utc, which are apparently "built-in"
> functions in Ruby (i.e. implemented in C) ... I can't help but think
> this is just a setting somewhere...
>
> I checked my regional settings (as James Tucker suggested) but that
> setting only appears to affect how Windows interprets 2-digit years.
> Ruby must be doing some kind of system api call for this and it is  
> just
> limited on Windows...
>
> Any other thoughts?

irb> YAML.load("--- 2008-01-03 14:42:18.998097 -05:00\n").class
=> Time
irb> YAML.load("--- 2008-01-03\n").class
=> Date

What does your YAML look like?  What exactly is being parsed (and  
where does it come from if that might matter)?

-Rob

> Rob Biedenharn wrote:
>> 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.
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