From: Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@...5.so-net.ne.jp>
Date: 2004-01-17T20:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Date Class and GMT

At 2003-11-27T01:42:12+0900
markjreed@mail.com (Mark J. Reed) wrote:

> However, as I have posted here before, there is a bug in this
> library which for some reason automatically increases the time zone
> offset from UTC by one minute, so if you run the above examples on your 
> system you will probably see -0501 instead of -0500.  This problem is
> easily fixed by removing the line 

I've just read your mail.  I don't read nearly all discussions in
English now.

I think you are right.  I intended to consider leap seconds.  But, I
was in confusion.

Thank you for your report.

--tadf


--- date.rb	2003-08-12 05:09:41+09	2.9
+++ date.rb	2004-01-17 16:51:52+09
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# date.rb: Written by Tadayoshi Funaba 1998-2003
+# date.rb: Written by Tadayoshi Funaba 1998-2004
 # $Id: date.rb,v 2.9 2003-08-12 05:09:41+09 tadf Exp tadf $
 
 require 'rational'
@@ -508,8 +508,7 @@
     jd = civil_to_jd(*(a[0,3] << sg))
     fr = time_to_day_fraction(*(a[3,3])) + i.usec.to_r/86400000000
     d = Time.gm(*i.to_a).to_i - i.to_i
-    d += d / d.abs if d.nonzero?
-    of = (d / 60).to_r/1440
+    of = (d / 60.0).round.to_r/1440
     new0(jd_to_ajd(jd, fr, of), of, sg)
   end