From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-14T07:20:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby accounts for 25 Hours in a day (2003-03-30)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:18:03PM +0900, Ricardo Nogueira wrote:
> time = Time.local(2003, 3, 30)  # => Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 EST 2003
> 
> time += 3600  # => Sun Mar 30 01:00:00 EST 2003
> time += 3600  # => Sun Mar 30 02:00:00 EST 2003
> time += 3600  # => Sun Mar 30 02:00:00 EST 2003  AGAIN !!!!!
> time += 3600  # => Sun Mar 30 03:00:00 EST 2003

Something wrong with the timezone localisation on your platform - I think it
should go from EST to EDT, and it should jump forwards an hour, not
backwards.

When I was at university in the late 80's, we had a timesharing IBM
mainframe system. Every year in October it had to be shut down for an hour
when the clocks went back - because otherwise time would go backwards, files
would be deleted before they were created, and other temporal paradoxes
would arise.

Regards,

Brian.