From: Shu-yu Guo <shu@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T07:35:59+09:00
Subject: DateTime.now offset is 1 off

Hello,

I am not understanding the behavior of DateTime.now.
For example (I'm in EST, which is UTC-5:00),

irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> DateTime.now.offset
=> Rational(-301, 1440)

Why is this -301/1440 instead of -300/1440? After reading through the 
sources, the addition occurs on date.rb:1270

	d += d / d.abs if d.nonzero?

What's the point of this addition? As a result all times are off by a 
minute, which I don't really want.

I am using ruby 1.8.1 (2003-10-31) [i386-freebsd4]
-- 
That's some catch, that Catch-22.
Oh, it's the best there is.