From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T03:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Strainge Time Behaviour

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:19:55AM +0900, Travis Whitton wrote:
> 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...
Day Light savings turnover?

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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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