From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2012-11-19T23:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Magical 57.6 minutes in Time

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Alex Gutteridge
<alexg@ruggedtextile.com> wrote:
> On 19.11.2012 14:26, Todd Benson wrote:
>>
>> irb(main):80:0> RUBY_VERSION
>> => "1.9.3"
>> irb(main):81:0> system("uname -a")
>> Linux krank 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:27:31 UTC
>> 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>> => true
>> irb(main):82:0> require 'date'
>> => false
>> irb(main):083:0> Time.new(2012, 11, 3, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 10,
>> 3, 12, 00)
>> => 2678400.0
>> irb(main):084:0> _ / 3600 / 24
>> => 31.0
>> irb(main):085:0> Time.new(2012, 11, 4, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 10,
>> 4, 12, 00)
>> => 2682000.0
>> irb(main):086:0> _ / 3600 / 24
>> => 31.041666666666668
>> irb(main):087:0> Time.new(2013, 1, 4, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 12, 4, 12,
>> 00)
>> => 2678400.0
>
>
> If I understand your question (forgive me if not), have a think about what
> happened on November 4th this year. As a hint, I live in the UK and the
> answer is different on my machine...
>
> --
> Alex Gutteridge
>

<facepalm>

Why not exactly 60 minutes, though?