From: whitton@... (Travis Whitton)
Date: 2002-12-12T02:19:55+09:00
Subject: Strainge Time Behaviour

I'm manipulating some dates, and I just found something weird.

ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32]

# works as expected
irb(main):001:0> Time.local(2002, 4, 29)
Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2002
irb(main):002:0> Time.local(2002, 4, 29) + 86400
Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2002

# weird behaviour
irb(main):004:0> Time.local(2002, 10, 27)
Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2002
irb(main):005:0> Time.local(2002, 10, 27) + 86400
Sun Oct 27 23:00:00 EST 2002

So, adding the amount of seconds to equal one day to 10/27/2002 only
brings it up to 23:00. If this is something completely obvious, please
enlighten me. It's causing quite a stir in my program...

Sincerely,
Travis Whitton <whitton@atlantic.net>