From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T02:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Out of range on Dates beyond 2038/01/19

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:58:05 +0100, Fernando Guillen <fguillen.mail@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Time.local(2038, 1, 19)
> => Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 +0100 2038
>>> Time.local(2038, 1, 20)
> ArgumentError: time out of range
>   from (irb):33:in `local'
>   from (irb):33
>
> It looks like Time class is not available to manage dates bigger than
> 2038/01/19.

Being a user of 64 bit operating systems for over a decade now (initially on Digital Unix), I sometimes find it surprising that so many people are still using 32 bit operating systems. On my 64 bit Fedora there is no issue with that date:

>> Time.local(2038, 1, 19)
=> Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 0100 2038
>> Time.local(2038, 1, 20)
=> Wed Jan 20 00:00:00 0100 2038

$ uname -a
Linux pen2.homeunix.net 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 13 20:29:07 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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