From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-01-07T03:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.gm(1969) chokes on Windows


On 6 Jan 2008, at 11:20, Thibaut Barrère wrote:

>> I am left with no choice BUT to work around
>> Syck's (IMO shortsighted) choice of using Time.gm rather than  
>> DateTime,
>> which I'm fairly certain was done for performance reasons...
>
> I find it unfortunate to still see a difference of behaviour for the
> Time class, depending on your runtime platform. I don't expect each
> library developer to actually care for that personally.
>
> I have been littl'bitten (caught it thanks to unit tests :-) a while
> back and was kind of disappointed to discover this !
>
> Does anyone know if there are plans to make Time behaviour
> 'homogeneous' ? (like: fixing the Windows version maybe ?)

Well, the bug tracker would be a good place to start ;-)

>
>
> cheers
>
> Thibaut
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