From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T02:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Strainge Time Behaviour

On 11 Dec 2002, Travis Whitton wrote:

[snip]
T> I'm manipulating some dates, and I just found something weird.
[snip]

and even weirder :

~ > irb
irb(main):001:0> t = Time.local(2002, 10, 27)
Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 MDT 2002
irb(main):002:0> 24.times do |h|
irb(main):003:1*   p t + 3600 * h
irb(main):004:1> end
Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 MDT 2002
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MDT 2002
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 02:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 03:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 04:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 05:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 06:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 07:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 08:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 09:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 10:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 11:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 12:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 13:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 14:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 15:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 16:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 17:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 18:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 19:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 20:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 21:00:00 MST 2002
Sun Oct 27 22:00:00 MST 2002
24

irb(main):005:0> p t + 3600 * 1
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MDT 2002
nil

irb(main):006:0> p t + 3600 * 2
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MST 2002
nil

irb(main):007:0> p t + 3600
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MDT 2002
nil

irb(main):008:0> p t + 7200
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 MST 2002
nil



this looks like a bug!

-a



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