Limits of Time

ruby-talk
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Hello,

We are making a website to handle all of our family pictures. The earliest
picture I found was 1850, so the code was

Time.mktime(1850)

and it said

ArgumentError: time out of range

So I tested it, and 1902 works but 1901 doesn’t. Why on earth? Chris said
I should ask you. We need to enter pictures that are really old; is there a
class we could use that is not so restrictive?

Katy
(Chris’s wife)

2

Try this:

require ‘date’
Date.new(1850)

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On Tuesday 23 March 2004 7:37 pm, Chris Pine wrote:

Hello,

We are making a website to handle all of our family pictures. The
earliest picture I found was 1850, so the code was

Time.mktime(1850)

and it said

ArgumentError: time out of range

So I tested it, and 1902 works but 1901 doesn’t. Why on earth?
Chris said I should ask you. We need to enter pictures that are
really old; is there a class we could use that is not so restrictive?

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