From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-12T02:48:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Strainge Time Behaviour

Hi --

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, ahoward wrote:

> 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
[...]
>
> 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!

I'm probably being completely thick, but what part of this
looks bug-like?


David

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