From: Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Date: 2010-05-30T04:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.today problem on linux with Ruby 1.8.6

Time.now works correctly
jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~/Downloads/ruby-1.8.6-p287$ ruby -e "require 'date'; 
puts Date.today; puts Time.now"
2060--1-9785
Sat May 29 21:59:11 +0300 2010

Jarmo

Jarmo Pertman wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I just installed Ruby 1.8.6 from source and then stumbled upon the
> following problem. Any ideas what might be causing this incorrect
> behaviour?
> 
> jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~$ uname -a
> Linux jarmo-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30
> UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~$ date
> Sat May 29 18:46:18 EEST 2010
> jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-05 patchlevel 399) [i686-linux]
> jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~$ ruby -e "require 'date'; puts Date.today"
> 2060--1-9785
> 
> Jarmo

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