From: Jarmo Pertman Date: 2010-05-30T22:07:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Date.today problem on linux with Ruby 1.8.6 By the way, doing every same move with 1.8.7 as i did with 1.8.6 works indeed: jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~/Downloads/ruby-1.8.7-p249$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-linux] jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~/Downloads/ruby-1.8.7-p249$ ruby -e "require 'date'; puts Date.today" 2010-05-30 But my problem was that i really-really needed 1.8.6, thus trying to make it work. But thanks for the tip. Jarmo Robert Klemme wrote: > If you are compiling from source anyway I'd probably switch to 1.8.7. > You could also check [1] to see whether it's a known bug already. > > Cheers > > robert > > [1] http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/show/ruby-186 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.