From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2004-01-08T03:32:02+09:00
Subject: Re: class Time doesn't pass year 2038?

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:24:52AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Could someone tell me an elegant way to figure that out?
> I'm trying to figure out how the Time function works.  I'm looking at the 
> ri documentation, but I haven't figured out what it expects for input.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but by trial and error I think I found it.
Time.at takes the number of seconds since the epoch, right?

So, to figure out the mid point of the Epoch I simply use:

>> Time.at(2**30).utc
=> Sat Jan 10 13:37:04 UTC 2004


> Is UTC the same as Greenwich Mean Time?

I guess it must be.  But Time doesn't seem to have a 'gmt' method.


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